Santanu Banerjee
Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Nuclear and High Energy Physics · Magnetic confinement fusion research · Fusion and Plasma Physics Studies · Plasma Diagnostics and Applications
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About
As a research physicist, Santanu Banerjee is now working on the LTX-β tokamak and is responsible for the magnetic diagnostics and turbulence and transport research. He joined PPPL in 2021. Prior to joining PPPL he worked as a research scientist in William & Mary and worked on pedestal and ELM physics in the DIII-D tokamak and led several experiments there. Prior to that he has worked for 15 years on the Indian tokamaks Aditya and SST-1 on a variety of topics like turbulence and transport, runaway suppression, disruption etc. During this time, he also collaborated with colleagues like Stewart Zweben and Ahmed Diallo at PPPL and worked on NSTX gas puff imaging (GPI) data. Banerjee received his PhD in 2013 from Kyushu University, Japan while working on the spherical tokamak QUEST. He also worked in TEXTOR on charge exchange recombination and beam emission spectroscopy. He has received the International Joint Research grant from the Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan for five consecutive years (2014-2018) for investigating turbulence and transport in the edge and scrape off layer of QUEST. Since 2015, he has been serving first as a constituent member and then as an expert for the Pedestal and Edge Physics (PEP) topical group of the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) for facilitating research in ITER.
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Publications (76)
- Development of an attention aware multimodal network for the identification of internal reconnection events in LTX-β Save
- Photodiode based multi-modal diagnostic for low-energy neutral beam injection in the LTX-β spherical tokamak Save
- Synthetic modeling of soft x-ray emissivity for magnetic island analysis in LTX- β Save
- Systematic analysis of magnetic equilibrium reconstruction with eddy currents on LTX-β Save
- Improved liquid lithium surfaces in the Lithium Tokamak Experiment-β Save
- Pedestal formation via different trajectories in the stability space in response to the timing scan of neutral beam heating in DIII-D Save
- ELM-free enhanced D α H-mode with near zero NBI torque injection in DIII-D tokamak Save
- Integration of fixed-frequency and FM-CW (frequency-modulated continuous-wave) reflectometers for coincident turbulence measurements on LTX-β (Lithium Tokamak eXperiment-β) Save
- NSTX-U research advancing the physics of spherical tokamaks Save
- Inter-ELM pedestal turbulence dynamics dependence on q95 and temperature gradient Save
- Decoupling of peeling and ballooning thresholds for pedestal stability and reduction in ELM frequency via enhanced turbulence with edge electron cyclotron heating in DIII-D Save
- Investigating the role of edge neutrals in exciting tearing mode activity and achieving flat temperature profiles in LTX-β Save
- Estimates of global recycling coefficients for LTX-β discharges Save
- ELM-free Enhanced D H-mode with Near Zero NBI Torque Injection in DIII-D Tokamak Save
- Improved neutral and plasma density control with increasing lithium wall coatings in the Lithium Tokamak Experiment-β (LTX-β) Save
- Extending the low-recycling, flat temperature profile regime in the lithium tokamak experiment-β (LTX-β) with ohmic and neutral beam heating Save
- Micro-tearing mode dominated electron heat transport in DIII-D H-mode pedestal Save
- Feasibility study of a high spatial and time resolution beam emission spectroscopy diagnostic for localized density fluctuation measurements in Lithium Tokamak eXperiment-β (LTX-β) Save
- DIII-D research advancing the physics basis for optimizing the tokamak approach to fusion energy Save
- NSTX-U theory, modeling and analysis results Save