Magnetic Reconnection

Presentations

• Velocity-Shear Driving for Magnetic Reconnection in Kinetic Simulations

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 9:30 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 9:42 AM

  Authors

  • Carrie Black

    • NASA/GSFC

  • Spiro Antiochos

    • NASA/GSFC

  • Kai Germaschewski

    • UNH

  • Naoki Bessho

    • UNH

  • C. Richard DeVore

    • NASA/GSFC

  • Judith.T. Karpen

    • NASA/GSFC

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• Strongly Driven Magnetic Reconnection in a Magnetized High-Energy-Density Plasma

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 9:42 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 9:54 AM

  Authors

  • G. Fiksel

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

  • D.H. Barnak

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • P.-Y. Chang

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • D. Haberberger

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • S.X. Hu

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • S. Ivancic

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • P.M. Nilson

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester

  • W. Fox

    • PPPL, Princeton University

  • W. Deng

    • PPPL, Princeton University

  • A. Bhattacharjee

    • PPPL, Princeton University

  • K. Germaschewski

    • U. of New Hampshire

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• PIC Simulations of the Omega-EP Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 9:54 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 10:06 AM

  Authors

  • Wenda Liu

    • University of Rochester

  • Eric G. Blackman

    • University of Rochester

  • R. Yan

    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics and Fusion Science Center, U. of Rochester

  • Chuang Ren

    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

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• Radiative Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysics

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 10:06 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 10:18 AM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado
    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder
    • CIPS, University of Colorado

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• Non-thermal particle acceleration in relativistic, collisionless, electron-positron magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 10:18 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 10:30 AM

  Authors

  • Gregory Werner

    • University of Colorado

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado
    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder
    • CIPS, University of Colorado

  • Benoit Cerutti

    • Princeton University

  • Krzysztof Nalewajko

    • JILA, University of Colorado, and NIST

  • Mitchell Begelman

    • JILA, University of Colorado, and NIST

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• The scaling of reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 10:30 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 10:42 AM

  Authors

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • NASA-GSFC
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • William Daughton

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Lab

  • Hui Li

    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Michael Hesse

    • NASA-GSFC

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• How robust is the Fermi acceleration in magnetic reconnection?

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 10:42 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 10:54 AM

  Authors

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Lab

  • Hui Li

    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • William Daughton

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Xiaocan Li

    • University of Alabama in Huntsville

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

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• Dynamics of the current sheet during driven guide-field reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 10:54 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 11:06 AM

  Authors

  • Olaf Grulke

    • MPI for Plasma Physics

  • Hannes Bohlin

    • MPI for Plasma Physics

  • Dusan Milojevic

    • MPI for Plasma Physics

  • Kian Rahbarnia

    • MPI for Plasma Physics

  • Ilya Shesterikov

    • MPI for Plasma Physics

  • Adrian von Stechow

    • MPI for Plasma Physics

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• Enhanced Magnetic Reconnection By Drift-Wave Instabilities

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 11:06 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 11:18 AM

  Authors

  • M.J. Pueschel

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Univ of Wisconsin, Madison

  • P.W. Terry

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • D. Told

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

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• Re-assessing how much parallel and perpendicular electric fields accelerate electrons during magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 11:18 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 11:30 AM

  Authors

  • Naoki Bessho

    • The University of New Hampshire

  • Li-Jen Chen

    • The University of New Hampshire

  • Kai Germaschewski

    • The University of New Hampshire
    • Univ of New Hampshire
    • University of New Hampshire

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

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• Fundamental limitation of a two-dimensional description of magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 11:30 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • Marie Christine Firpo

    • LPP, CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

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• Non-linear Tearing of 3D Null Point Current Sheets

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 11:42 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Wyper

    • GSFC

  • David Pontin

    • Dundee University

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• Global stability versus diffusion region micro-physics in flare reconnection during CME formation

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 11:54 AM – Oct. 30, 2014, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • Vyacheslav S. Lukin

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Ed Lee

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Mark G. Linton

    • Naval Research Laboratory

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• The Onset of Ion Heating During Magnetic Reconnection with a Strong Guide Field

  ORAL

  Oct. 30, 2014, 12:06 PM – Oct. 30, 2014, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • James Drake

    • University of Maryland

  • Michael Swisdak

    • University of Maryland

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