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Fundamental Plasma: Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence

ORAL · CM12 · ID: 3570626

Presentations

  • Laboratory Observation of Transition from Collisional Slow to Collisionless Fast Reconnection

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    Presenters

    • Peiyun Shi

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Authors

    • Peiyun Shi

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Jongsoo Yoo

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Hantao Ji

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Sayak Bose

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

    • Masaaki Yamada

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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  • Verification of Bifurcated Current Sheets and Their Role in Energy Conversion during Magnetic Reconnection

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    Presenters

    • Masaaki Yamada

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Authors

    • Masaaki Yamada

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Jongsoo Yoo

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Hantao Ji

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Tongnyeol Rhee

      KFE, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Peiyun Shi

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Sayak Bose

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

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  • Electron Trapping by Lower Hybrid Drift Waves During Guide-Field Magnetic Reconnection

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    Publication: Sonu Yadav, Thomas Rood, Earl Scime, Peiyun Shi, Jongsoo Yoo, and Greg Howes; Nonlinear electron trapping by lower-hybrid drift waves in magnetic reconnection. Submitting to Physical Review Letters (2025).

    Presenters

    • Sonu Yadav

      West Virginia University

    Authors

    • Sonu Yadav

      West Virginia University

    • Thomas Rood

      West Virginia University

    • Earl E Scime

      West Virginia University

    • Peiyun Shi

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Jongsoo Yoo

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Gregory Gershom Howes

      University of Iowa

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  • Modeling the "Electron-Only" magnetic reconnection rates at sub-ion-scales

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    Publication: Yi-Hsin Liu, Prayash Pyakurel, Xiaocan Li, Michael Hesse, Naoki Bessho, Kevin Genestreti and Shiva B. Thapa, An Analytical Model of "Electron-Only" Magnetic Reconnection Rates, Communications Physics 8, 128 (2025)

    Presenters

    • Yi-Hsin Liu

      Dartmouth College

    Authors

    • Yi-Hsin Liu

      Dartmouth College

    • Prayash Pyakurel

      University of California, Berkeley

    • Xiaocan Li

      Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • Michael Hesse

      NASA-Ames

    • Naoki Bessho

      University of Maryland College Park

    • Kevin Genestreti

      Southwest Research Institute

    • Shiva B Thapa

      Dartmouth College

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  • Topological Bifurcation Triggers Magnetic Reconnection in a Mini-Magnetopause

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    Presenters

    • Paul Gradney

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    Authors

    • Paul Gradney

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    • Jan Egedal

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    • Cameron Kuchta

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    • Jack M Schroeder

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    • Joseph R Olson

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    • Xinyu Yu

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    • John P Wallace

      University of Wisconsin - Madison

    • Katariina Nykyri

      NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

    • Cary B Forest

      University of Wisconsin - Madison, Realta Fusion; University of Wisconsin - Madison

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  • Current Sheet Formation under Radiative Cooling

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    Publication: S. CHOWDHRY & NUNO F. LOUREIRO 2025 Current Sheet Formation under Radiative Cooling Journal of Plasma Physics (in prep)

    Presenters

    • Simran Chowdhry

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Authors

    • Simran Chowdhry

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Nuno F Loureiro

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Probing the role of kinetic effects in simulations of collisionless plasmas by varying velocity distributions with shared low-order moments

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    Presenters

    • Madox Carver McGrae-Menge

      University of California, Los Angeles

    Authors

    • Madox Carver McGrae-Menge

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Frank S. Tsung

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Warren B Mori

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Paulo Alves

      University of California, Los Angeles

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  • First-principles modeling of ion acoustic turbulence in collisionless reconnection

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    Publication: Title: Role of ion acoustic instability in magnetic reconnection (Submitted to the Journal of Plasma Physics, posted on arXiv: arXiv:2505.08983)

    Presenters

    • Dion Li

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Authors

    • Dion Li

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Zhuo Liu

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Nuno F Loureiro

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Statistical properties of energy dissipation in magnetic structures during turbulent reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail and 3D Particle-In-Cell simulations

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    Presenters

    • Hantao Ji

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Authors

    • Hantao Ji

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Rachel Wang

      Princeton University

    • Greta Xicai Li

      Princeton University

    • Christine Ramos Carvajal

      Rutgers University

    • Adam T Robbins

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Xiaocan Li

      Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • Narges Ahmadi

      University of Colorado, Boulder

    • Kendra A Bergstedt

      Princeton University

    • Li-Jen Chen

      NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

    • Michael Churchill

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Yuka Doke

      Univ of Tokyo

    • Robert Ergun

      University of Colorado, Boulder

    • Joshua Pawlak

      Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Peiyun Shi

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Jongsoo Yoo

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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  • Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence follows Kolmogorov scaling

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    Publication: M. Verma, A. Jha, and M. K. Verma, Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence follows Kolmogorov scaling, Submitted to Physical Review Letters<br><br>M. Verma, A. Jha, and M. K. Verma, Numerical Demonstration of Kolmogorov Scaling in Magnetohydrodynamic, Submitted to Physical Review Fluids

    Presenters

    • Mahendra Kumar Verma

      Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

    Authors

    • Mahendra Kumar Verma

      Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

    • Manthan Verma

      Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

    • Abhishek K Jha

      Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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