Reconnection

Presentations

• Enhanced Fermi acceleration in multiscale MHD reconnection

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 2:00 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Stephen P Majeski

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Stephen P Majeski

    • Princeton University

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton University

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• Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Thermal and Non-thermal Particle Energy Densities

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 2:12 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Bruno S Coppi

    • MIT
    • CNR
    • Yale Un.
    • ENEA, MIT
    • ENEA
    • Multiple Institutions
    • CNR, MIT
    • Roma Tre University
    • CNR-ISC, Italy, MIT

  Authors

  • Valeria Ricci

    • CNR
    • CNR-ISC, Italy

  • Bruno S Coppi

    • MIT
    • CNR
    • Yale Un.
    • ENEA, MIT
    • ENEA
    • Multiple Institutions
    • CNR, MIT
    • Roma Tre University
    • CNR-ISC, Italy, MIT

  • Bamandas Basu

    • MIT

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• Current sheet equilibrium selection via relaxation and dynamo processes

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 2:24 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 2:36 PM

  Publication: Y. D. Yoon, D. E. Wendel, and G. S. Yun, "Equilibrium selection via current sheet relaxation and guide field amplification," manuscript under review

  Presenters

  • Young Dae Yoon

    • Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL)

  Authors

  • Young Dae Yoon

    • Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL)

  • Deirdre E Wendel

    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Gunsu Yun

    • Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech
    • Pohang University of Science and Technology

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• Onset of magnetic reconnection in poorly ionized plasmas

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 2:36 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 2:48 PM

  Publication: Paper in preparation

  Presenters

  • Elizabeth A Tolman

    • Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
    • Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

  Authors

  • Elizabeth A Tolman

    • Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
    • Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

  • Matthew W Kunz

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton

  • James M Stone

    • Institute for Advanced Study

  • Lev A Arzamasskiy

    • Institute for Advanced Study

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• Laboratory study of the stability of solar-relevant, arched, line-tied magnetic flux ropes

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 2:48 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 3:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Andrew D Alt

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Andrew D Alt

    • Princeton University

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton University

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Sayak Bose

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Aaron Goodman

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Masaaki Yamada

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

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• Experimental Observation of a Field-Aligned Ion Beam Produced by Magnetic Reconnection of Two Flux Ropes on the LArge Plasma Device

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 3:12 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 3:36 PM

  Publication: Tang, Shawn Wenjie. "Ion Temperature Measurements of Two Flux Ropes in a Laboratory Plasma Experiment." PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2022.

  Presenters

  • Shawn W. Tang

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Shawn W. Tang

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Walter N Gekelman

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Study of the conversion of magnetic energy to plasma kinetic energy during guide field magnetic reconnection in MRX

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 3:36 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 3:48 PM

  Publication: S. Bose, W. Fox, H. Ji, J. Yoo, A. Goodman, A. Alt, M. Yamada, et al. "Conversion of magnetic energy to plasma kinetic energy during guide field reconnection in the laboratory", Under preparation.

  Presenters

  • Sayak Bose

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Sayak Bose

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • William R Fox

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton University

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Aaron Goodman

    • Princeton University

  • Andrew D Alt

    • Princeton University

  • Masaaki Yamada

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

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• Experimental Plasma Jet Formation in a Three-dimensional Magnetic Null Point Topology

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 3:48 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 4:00 PM

  Publication: Chesny, D. L., Moffett, M. B., Orange, N. B., Hatfield, K. W. (2022), "Experimental Plasma Jet Formation in a Three-dimensional Magnetic Null Point Topology," Physical Review E, under review
  
  Chesny, D. L., Moffett, M. B., Hatfield, K. W., Cole, J., Landers, K., Shokrollahi, Y., Ege, F. (2022), "Operation and Qualification of Coaxial Plasma Gun Modes with a Gas Puff Inlet," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, in press, https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2022.3178048
  
  Chesny, D. L., Moffett, M. B., Cole, J., Orange, N. B., Baptiste, U. (2022), "Development and Experimental Verification of a Strong Field Fan-spine Magnetic Null Point Topology," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, in press, https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2022.3172376

  Presenters

  • David L Chesny

    • SpaceWave, LLC

  Authors

  • David L Chesny

    • SpaceWave, LLC

  • Mark B. B Moffett

    • SpaceWave, LLC

  • Norton B Orange

    • SpaceWave, LLC

  • Kaleb W Hatfield

    • Florida Institute of Technology

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• Dynamics of a guide-field reconnection layer: Pathway to collisionless dissipation

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 4:00 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 4:12 PM

  Publication: Lower-Hybrid Drift Waves Driving Electron Nongyrotropic Heating and Vortical Flows in a Magnetic Reconnection Layer, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.025103

  Presenters

  • Li-jen Chen

    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  Authors

  • Li-jen Chen

    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Jonathan Ng

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Naoki Bessho

    • University of Maryland, College Park; NASA GSFC
    • University of Maryland, College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • James F Drake

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Jason Shuster

    • University of Maryland, College Park

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• Dynamics of shear flows in magnetic island coalescence problem using Hall-MHD model

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 4:12 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 4:24 PM

  Publication: 1. P. Cassak, Physics of Plasmas 18, 072106 (2011).
  2. J. Mahapatra, A. Bokshi, R. Ganesh, A. Sen, Phys. Plasmas 28, 072103 (2021).
  3. J. Mahapatra, R. Ganesh, A. Sen, Manuscript under preparation (2022).
  4. C. Xia, J. Teunissen, I. El Mellah, E. Chane, R. Keppens, The Astrophys. J. 234, 30 (2018).
  5. A. Stanier, W. Daughton, L. Chacón, H. Karimabadi, J. Ng, Y. M. Huang, A. Hakim, A. Bhattacharjee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175004 (2015).

  Presenters

  • Jagannath Mahapatra

    • Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat

  Authors

  • Jagannath Mahapatra

    • Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat

  • Rajaraman Ganesh

    • Institute for Plasma Research
    • Instittute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat-382428, India
    • Institute for Plasma Research, HBNI, Gandhinagar

  • Abhijit Sen

    • Inst for Plasm Res
    • Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India
    • Institute for Plasma Research

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• Reconnection-Driven Energy Cascade in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 4:24 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 4:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Chuanfei Dong

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Chuanfei Dong

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Liang Wang

    • Princeton University

  • Luca Comisso

    • Columbia Univ.
    • Columbia University

  • Yi-Min Huang

    • Princeton University

  • Timothy A Sandstrom

    • NASA Ames Research Center

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

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

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• Capturing kinetic counter-streaming effects in magnetic reconnection using 4-fluid plasma simulations

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 4:36 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 4:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Madox C McGrae-Menge

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Madox C McGrae-Menge

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Jacob R Pierce

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

  • Mark Almanza

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • UCLA, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Jason Chou

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Nathaniel Barbour

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Noah R Mandell

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Alexander Velberg

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI

  • William D Dorland

    • University of Maryland Department of Physics
    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Nuno F Loureiro

    • MIT PSFC
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Frederico Fiuza

    • SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • SLAC

  • Paulo Alves

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • UCLA, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    • UCLA

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• A two-dimensional numerical study of ion-acoustic turbulence and its potential impact on magnetic reconnection onset

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2022, 4:48 PM – Oct. 18, 2022, 5:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Zhuo Liu

    • MIT PSFC
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Zhuo Liu

    • MIT PSFC
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Ryan White

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Lucio Milanese

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Nuno F Loureiro

    • MIT PSFC
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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