Journal Publications

E.A. Tolman and P.J. Catto, Drift kinetic theory of alpha transport by neoclassical tearing modes, in preparation.

E.A. Tolman, M.W. Kunz, J.M. Stone, L. Arzamasskiy, Tearing-mediated reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic poorly ionized plasmas. I. Onset and linear evolution, accepted to ApJ.

P.J. Catto, E.A. Tolman, F.I. Parra, Merging of the superbanana plateau and √ν transport regimes in nearly
quasisymmetric stellarators, Journal of Plasma Physics 89(1), 905890106 (2023).

C. Hamilton, E.A. Tolman, L. Arzamasskiy, and V.N. Duarte, Galactic bar resonances with diffusion: an analytic
model with implications for bar-dark matter halo dynamical friction, ApJ 954 (2022).

E.A. Tolman, A.A. Philippov, and A.N. Timokhin, Electric field screening in pair discharges and generation of pulsar radio emission, ApJL 933 L37 (2022).

P.J. Catto and E.A. Tolman, Collisional broadening of nonlinear resonant wave–particle interactions, Journal of Plasma Physics 87.6 (2021).

P.J. Catto and E.A. Tolman, Reimagining full wave RF quasilinear theory in a tokamak, Journal of Plasma Physics 87.2 (2021).

E.A. Tolman and P.J. Catto, Drift kinetic theory of alpha particle transport by tokamak perturbations, Journal of Plasma Physics 87.2 (2021).

Scott, S. D., G. J. Kramer, E. A. Tolman, A. Snicker, J. Varje, K. Särkimäki, J. C. Wright, and P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, Fast-ion physics in SPARC, Journal of Plasma Physics 86.5 (2020).

Creely, A. J., …E. A. Tolman, …. [45 authors total], Overview of the SPARC tokamak,  Journal of Plasma Physics 86.5 (2020).

A. J. Creely,* L. M. Milanese,* E. A. Tolman,* J. H. Irby, S. B. Ballinger, S. Frank, A. Q. Kuang, B. L. Linehan, W. McCarthy, K. J. Montes, T. Mouratidis, J. F. Picard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. M. Rosenthal, A. J. Sandberg, F. Sciortino, R. A. Simpson, R. A. Tinguely, M. Zhou, and A. E. White, Design study of a combined interferometer and polarimeter for a high-field, compact tokamak, Physics of Plasmas 27, 042516 (2020). * shared first authorship

R.A. Tinguely, A. Rosenthal, R. Simpson, S.B. Ballinger, A.J. Creely, S. Frank, A.Q. Kuang, B.L. Linehan, W. McCarthy, L.M. Milanese, K.J. Montes, T. Mouratidis, J.F. Picard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A.J. Sandberg, F. Sciortino, E.A. Tolman, M. Zhou, B.N. Sorbom, Z.S. Hartwig and A.E. White, Neutron diagnostics for the physics of a high-field, compact, Q≥ 1 tokamak, Fusion Engineering and Design 143, 212-225 (2019).

E.A. Tolman, N.F. Loureiro, P. Rodrigues, J.W. Hughes, E.S. Marmar, Dependence of Alfvén eigenmode linear stability on device magnetic field strength and consequences for next-generation tokamaks, Nuclear Fusion 59, 046020 (2019).

A. Q. Kuang, N.M. Cao, A.J. Creely, C.A. Dennett, J. Hecla, B. LaBombard, R.A. Tinguely, E.A. Tolman, H. Hoffman, M. Major, J. Ruiz Ruiz, D. Brunner, P. Grover, C. Laughman, B.N. Sorbom, and D.G. Whyte, Conceptual design study for heat exhaust management in the ARC fusion pilot plant, Fusion Engineering and Design 137, 221 (2018).

J.W. Hughes, P.B. Snyder, M.L. Reinke, B. LaBombard, S. Mordijck, S. Scott, E.A. Tolman, S.G. Baek, T. Golfinopoulos, R.S. Granetz, M. Greenwald, A.E. Hubbard, E. Marmar, J.E. Rice, A.E. White, D.G. Whyte, T. Wilks, S. Wolfe, Access to pedestal pressure relevant to burning plasmas on the high magnetic field tokamak Alcator C-Mod , Nuclear Fusion 58, 112003 (2018). 

M. Schmidtmayr, J.W. Hughes, F. Ryter, E. Wolfrum, N.M. Cao, A.J. Creely, N.T. Howard, A.E. Hubbard, Y. Lin, M.L. Reinke, J.E. Rice, E.A. Tolman, S.J. Wukitch, Y. Ma, Investigation of the critical edge ion heat flux for L-H transitions in Alcator C-Mod and its dependence on BT , Nuclear Fusion 58, 056003 (2018). 

E.A. Tolman, N.F. Loureiro, D.A. Uzdensky, Development of Tearing Instability in a Current Sheet Forming by Sheared Incompressible Flow, Journal of Plasma Physics 84, 905840115 (2018). 

E.A. Tolman, J.W. Hughes, S.M. Wolfe, S.J. Wukitch, B. LaBombard, A.E. Hubbard, E.S. Marmar, P.B. Snyder, and M. Schmidtmayr, Influence of high magnetic field on access to stationary H-modes and pedestal characteristics in Alcator C-Mod , Nuclear Fusion 58, 046004 (2018). 

A.E. Hubbard, S.-G. Baek, D. Brunner, A.J. Creely, I. Cziegler, E. Edlund, J.W. Hughes, B. LaBombard, Y. Lin, Z. Liu, E.S. Marmar, M.L. Reinke, J.E. Rice, B. Sorbom, C. Sung, J. Terry, C. Theiler, E.A. Tolman, J.R. Walk, A.E. White, D. Whyte, S.M. Wolfe, S. Wukitch, X.Q. Xu and the Alcator C-Mod team, Physics and performance of the I-mode regime over an expanded operating space on Alcator C-Mod, Nuclear Fusion 57, 126039 (2017).

J.E. Rice, J.W. Hughes, P.H. Diamond, N. Cao, M.A. Chilenski, A.E. Hubbard, J.H. Irby, Y. Kosuga, Y. Lin, I.W. Metcalf, M.L. Reinke, E.A. Tolman, M.M. Victora, S.M. Wolfe and S.J. Wukitch  On the ρ∗ scaling of intrinsic rotation in C-Mod plasmas with edge transport barriers, Nuclear Fusion 57, 116004 (2017). 

Conference Proceedings

T. Tala et al., Core density peaking experiments in JET, DIII-D and C-Mod in various operational scenarios – driven by fueling or transport?,Preprint for IAEA Fusion Energy Conference Oct. 22-27, 2018, IAEA-CN-123/45.

E.A. Tolman et al., Conceptual design study for heat exhaust management in the ARC fusion pilot plant, Preprint for IAEA Fusion Energy Conference Oct. 22-27, 2018, IAEA-FIP-P1-22.

White Papers

J. Boguski, M. Brown, R. Buttery, R. Churchill, W. Guttenfelder, G. Hammett, J. Hanson, D. Hatch, C. Hegna, M. Knolker, X. Liu, L. Lodestro, R. Majeski, R. Pinsker, M. Shafer, D. Sutherland, R.A. Tinguely, E. Tolman, and D. Weisberg. Discussion Group 5 Summary of USMFRSD Workshop in Austin, TX. Submitted to The National Academy of Sciences regarding A Strategic Plan for US Burning Plasma (2018).