[PDF] Top 20 Decoupling of Electron and Ion Dynamics in Driven Magnetic Reconnection in Collisionless Plasmas

... undriven reconnection simulation cases, the generation of parallel electric field is completely different in nature from the driven reconnection simulation case and is mainly due to electrostatic ... See full document

... based electron and photon accel- erators (Bingham, 2003; Bingham et ...relativistic electron mass increase in the electro- magnetic fields and the plasma density modification due to relativistic ... See full document

... simulations. Magnetic reconnection is initiated in multiple X points by the tearing ...core magnetic field and an out-of-plane electron current that drives the coalesc- ing ...a ... See full document

... change in y-component of magnetic field which is the nec- essary condition for a magnetic island to go freely through the boundary. The boundary condition for particles is de- termined so as to keep the ... See full document

... Pure electron plasmas and electron plasmas with a finite ion fraction have been studied in the Columbia Non- neutral Torus (CNT) since the end of ...pure electron plasmas ... See full document

... Laboratory plasmas and space plasmas often exhibit different physical behaviour even in the case of closely related phe- nomena, such as magnetic field line reconnection, because of different ... See full document

... on collisionless driven reconnection by means of two- dimensional electromagnetic particle simulation in an open ...The reconnection current density evolves locally in the narrow ... See full document

... of magnetic reconnection in space plasma were reported very recently 10 ...of magnetic reconnections such as cusp and plasmoid 11 , although it is impossible to resolve the electron scale ... See full document

... the ion effective heat- ing [5]. In order to study the mechanism of ion heat- ing, we have carried out two-dimensional particle simu- lations by using the PASMO code [6, ...torus plasmas in an ST ... See full document

... the magnetic field ...the magnetic field without any seed ...A magnetic reconnection may play some role on determining the saturation ... See full document

... separated electron holes with slightly different veloci- ties, and to also observe here their subsequent ...sulting electron hole is wider and has a larger amplitude than either of its constituents, with a ... See full document

... If the type of structure with localized high electric elds, as described in the previous section, arises spontaneously in compressed pellets then it could have implications for the separation of species in a ... See full document

... one ion species and show that if such shocks arise in laser compressed deuterium-tritium targets they may produce signi…cant charge separation, with possible consequences for fusion ...a collisionless shock ... See full document

... the magnetic field, ...laboratory plasmas, e.g. [15], proposed (quote) ‘the heating of collisionless plasma by utilizing a spatial phase mixing by shear AW resonance and discussed potential ... See full document

... Magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon that changes the global magnetic topology and converts magnetic en- ergy into kinetic energy of magnetized plasmas by recon- necting of ... See full document

... dayside magnetic reconnection has only been identified at the ...near-noon reconnection within Saturn’s magnetodisc using measurements from the Cassini ...the reconnection region are ... See full document

... Petschek reconnection with a pair of slow shocks (Petschek, 1964) can explain a rapid energy conversion from the magnetic field energy stored in the plasma sheet to the plasma kinetic energy, and the ... See full document

... example magnetic null points and separators, have been inferred as likely sites of magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the solar ...fact, magnetic reconnection is not ... See full document

... The magnetic field structure drifts rapidly in the lateral directions, in addition to longitudinally against the density ...the magnetic dipole vortex in the × direction according to ...the electron ... See full document

... particle dynamics were then identi- fied numerically by means of Lyapunov characteristic expo- nent ...the electron zone in the “diffu- sion region”, on the one hand, and penetration of the nonlin- ear ... See full document