Reconnection

Presentations

• Laser-driven magnetic reconnection in the multi-plasmoid regime

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 9:30 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 9:42 AM

  Authors

  • Samuel Totorica

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • Stanford, KIPAC, SLAC

  • Tom Abel

    • Stanford, KIPAC, SLAC

  • Frederico Fiuza

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • SLAC

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• 3-D magnetic reconnection in colliding laser-produced plasmas

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 9:42 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 9:54 AM

  Authors

  • Jackson Matteucci

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University

  • Will Fox

    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

  • Clement Moissard

    • Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, France

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    • PPPL
    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab

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• The role of current sheet formation in driven plasmoid reconnection in laser-produced plasma bubbles

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 9:54 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 10:06 AM

  Authors

  • Kirill Lezhnin

    • Princeton University

  • Will Fox

    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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• Electron acceleration in pulsed-power driven magnetic-reconnection experiments

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 10:06 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 10:18 AM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Halliday

    • Imperial College London

  • Jack Hare

    • Imperial College London

  • Sergey Lebedev

    • Imperial College London

  • Lee Suttle

    • Imperial College London

  • Simon Bland

    • Imperial College London

  • Thomas Clayson

    • Imperial College London

  • Eleanor Tubman

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College, London

  • Sergei Pikuz

    • Cornell University

  • Tanya Shelkovenko

    • Cornell University

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• Fast magnetic reconnection supported by sporadic small-scale Petschek-type shocks

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 10:18 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 10:30 AM

  Authors

  • Takuya Shibayama

    • ISEE, Nagoya University

  • Kanya Kusano

    • ISEE, Nagoya University

  • Takahiro Miyoshi

    • Hiroshima University

  • Grigory Vekstein

    • University of Manchester

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• Tearing Instability of a Current Sheet Forming by Sheared Incompressible Flow

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 10:30 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 10:42 AM

  Authors

  • Elizabeth Tolman

    • MIT
    • MIT PSFC
    • Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Nuno Loureiro

    • PSFC-MIT
    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado
    • University of Colorado Boulder and IAS
    • Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, Physics Department, University of Colorado
    • Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

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• A Nonlinear evolution of tearing mode with resistivity and hyper-resistivity

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 10:42 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 10:54 AM

  Authors

  • Ding Li

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Wen Yang

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Xueqiao Xu

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Scaling Study of Reconnection Heating in Torus Plasma Merging Experiments

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 10:54 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 11:06 AM

  Authors

  • Yasushi Ono

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Moe Akimitsu

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Asuka Sawada

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Qinghong Cao

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Hideya Koike

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Hironori Hatano

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Taishi Kaneda

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Hiroshi Tanabe

    • Univ of Tokyo

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• Development of a sub-cm high resolution ion Doppler tomography diagnostics for fine structure measurement of guide field reconnection in TS-U

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 11:06 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 11:18 AM

  Authors

  • Hiroshi Tanabe

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Hideya Koike

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Hironori Hatano

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Takumi Hayashi

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Qinghong Cao

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Shunichi Himeno

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Taishi Kaneda

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Moe Akimitsu

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Asuka Sawada

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

  • Yasushi Ono

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

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• Nonthermal particle acceleration in 3D relativistic pair reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 11:18 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 11:30 AM

  Authors

  • Gregory Werner

    • University of Colorado

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado
    • University of Colorado Boulder and IAS
    • Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, Physics Department, University of Colorado
    • Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Vladimir Zhdankin

    • JILA
    • JILA, University of Colorado, and NIST

  • Mitchell Begelman

    • JILA, University of Colorado, and NIST

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• Non-thermal particle acceleration in 3D magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 11:30 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • Xiaocan Li

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Fan Guo

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Hui Li

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

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• Relativistic reconnection in near critical Schwinger field

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 11:42 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa

  • Thomas Grismayer

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Técnico
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Ricardo Fonseca

    • DCTI/ISCTE Instituto Universitario de Lisboa

  • Luis Silva

    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • University of Colorado
    • University of Colorado Boulder and IAS
    • Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, Physics Department, University of Colorado
    • Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Apex Dips of Experimental Flux Ropes: Helix or Cusp?

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 11:54 AM – Oct. 23, 2017, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • Magnus Haw

    • Caltech

  • Pakorn Wongwaitayakornkul

    • Caltech

  • Hui Li

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

  • Shengtai Li

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • Paul M. Bellan

    • Caltech

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• Relativistic magnetic reconnection driven by a moderately intense laser interacting with a micro-plasma-slab.

  ORAL

  Oct. 23, 2017, 12:06 PM – Oct. 23, 2017, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • Longqing Yi

    • Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology

  • Baifei Shen

    • Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University

  • Alexander Pukhov

    • Institut fuer Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf

  • Tünde Fülöp

    • Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology

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