Three-dimensional kinetic open boundary simulation of driven reconnection for TS-3 laboratory plasma merging experiment

Using the PArticle Simulation of driven Magnetic reconnection for an Open boundary (PASMO) with parameters similar to the University of Tokyo Spherical Torus (TS-3) experiments a fully kinetic electromagnetic simulation is performed. Upstream boundary conditions in the simulation are modeled after electric fields calculated from measured TS-3 magnetic probe data. Ion temperature measurements from 2-D ion Doppler spectroscopy as well as magnetic probe data are compared with the simulation results. Particle acceleration is investigated through calculation of trajectories based on electromagnetic simulation data and a non-thermal distribution.