Mini-Conference: Plasma Energization - Interactions Between Fluid and Kinetic Scales III

Presentations

• Mechanisms for Electron Acceleration and Heating in Multi-island Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2015, 2:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2015, 2:30 PM

  Authors

  • James Drake

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Joel Dahlin

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Marc Swisdak

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

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• Kinetic simulations of particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection with open boundary conditions

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2015, 2:30 PM – Nov. 17, 2015, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • W.S. Daughton

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

  • Suren Byna

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Hui Li

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

  • Xiaocan Li

    • The University of Alabma in Huntsville
    • The University of Alabama in Huntsville
    • University of Alabama in Huntsville

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • NASA/GSFC
    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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• Plasma dynamics and heating/acceleration during driven magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2015, 3:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2015, 3:20 PM

  Authors

  • C.Z. Cheng

    • University of Tokyo

  • Shizuo Inoue

    • Japan Atomic Energy Agency

  • Yasushi Ono

    • The University of Tokyo
    • University of Tokyo

  • Ritoku Horiuchi

    • National Institute of Fusion Science

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• Dynamic of Current Sheets and Their Associated Particle Energization

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2015, 3:20 PM – Nov. 17, 2015, 3:50 PM

  Authors

  • Hui Li

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

  • Fan Guo

    • LANL

  • Kirit Makwana

    • U. Chicago

  • Xiaocan Li

    • U. Alabama and LANL

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• Studying astrophysical particle acceleration mechanisms with colliding magnetized laser-produced plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2015, 3:50 PM – Nov. 17, 2015, 4:10 PM

  Authors

  • Will Fox

    • Princeton Plasma Phys Laboratory
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab

  • W. Deng

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • A. Bhattacharjee

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • G. Fiksel

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

  • P. Nilson

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

  • D. Haberberger

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

  • P.-Y. Chang

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

  • D. Barnak

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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• Particle Energization via Tearing Instability with Global Self-Organization Constraints

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2015, 4:10 PM – Nov. 17, 2015, 4:40 PM

  Authors

  • M.D. Nornberg

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • A.F. Almagri

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • J.K. Anderson

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • A. DuBois

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • D. Craig

    • Wheaton College (IL)

  • D.J. Den Hartog

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • C.B. Forest

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • K.J. McCollam

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • J.S. Sarff

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • P.W. Terry

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• On particle acceleration in astrophysical relativistic jets

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2015, 4:40 PM – Nov. 17, 2015, 5:00 PM

  Authors

  • Mikhail Medvedev

    • Univ of Kansas

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