Magnetic Reconnection and Basic Plasma Properties

Presentations

• The scaling of the two-fluid resistive and collisionless tearing instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 1:00 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 1:12 PM

  Authors

  • Mahboub Hosseinpour

    • The University of Manchester

  • Nickolas Bian

    • The University of Manchester

  • Grigory Vekstein

    • The University of Manchester

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• Hall Magnetohydrodynamics near a Hyperbolic Magnetic Neutral Line

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 1:12 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 1:24 PM

  Authors

  • Bhimsen Shivamoggi

    • University of Central Florida

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• Magnetic Reconnection of Super-Strong Magnetic Fields in Magnetar Magnetospheres

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 1:24 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 1:36 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • Princeton University/CMSO

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• Plasmoid Generation in Driven Compressible Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 1:36 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 1:48 PM

  Authors

  • R. Samtaney

    • PPPL

  • N. Loureiro

    • EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Assoc.

  • A. Schekochihin

    • Imperial College

  • D. Uzdensky

    • Princeton Univ.

  • S. Cowley

    • EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Assoc. \& Imperial College

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• Current sheets and filaments in relativistic collisionless plasmas: Exact solutions for a broad class of particle distributions

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 1:48 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 2:00 PM

  Authors

  • Vladimir Kocharovsky

    • Institute of Applied Physics RAS

  • Vitaly Kocharovsky

    • Texas A\&M University

  • Vladimir Martyanov

    • Institute of Applied Physics RAS

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• Fast magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas with velocity shear

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 2:00 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Francesco Pegoraro

    • University of Pisa

  • Matteo Faganello

    • University of Pisa

  • Francesco Califano

    • University of Pisa

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• Towards all-optical plasma physics

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 2:12 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Jason Fleischer

    • Princeton University

  • Dmitry Dylov

    • Princeton University

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• Low velocity Ion Stopping in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 2:24 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Claude Deutsch

    • LPGP Universit\'e Paris XI
    • LPGP UParis XI Orsay

  • Romain Popoff

    • LPGP Universit\'e Paris XI

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• Enhancing Laser Induced Plasma Emissions using Various Excitation Modalities

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 2:36 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Lewis Johnson

    • Florida A\&M University, Tallahassee, Florida

  • Charlemagne Akpovo

    • Florida A\&M University, Tallahassee, Florida

  • Samson Gebreegziabher

    • Florida A\&M University, Tallahassee, Florida

  • Jorge Martinez Jr.

    • Florida A\&M University, Tallahassee, Florida

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• Helium Spectroscopy Studies on Anomalous Turbulent Lines using a Mach 50 Arc-Driven Shock Tube

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 2:48 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • James Titus

    • Florida A\&M University

  • Chavis Raynor

    • Florida A\&M University

  • Kyron Williams

    • Florida A\&M University

  • Richard Appartaim

    • Florida A\&M University

  • Joseph Johnson, III

    • Florida A\&M University

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• Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of electron-ion temperature relaxation in a classical Coulomb plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 3:00 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • Guy Dimonte

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jerome Daligault

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Numerical Calculations of Diffusion Coefficients for Plasmas Confined by Magnetic Fields

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2008, 3:12 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • Alhashmi Alabyad Bilal

    • Plasma Physics Department, TNRC

  • Mohamed Mansor

    • Physics Department, Alfatah University

  • Maulud Elaharsh

    • Physics Department, 7th April University

  • Najeeb Khalifa

    • Plasma Physics Department, TNRC

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Nov. 19, 2008, 3:24 PM – Nov. 19, 2008, 3:36 PM

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