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 Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

    • Sayak Bose

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, 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 Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

    • Tongnyeol Rhee

      KFE, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Peiyun Shi

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

    • Sayak Bose

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton University

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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, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

    • 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 Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

    Authors

    • Hantao Ji

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

    • 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, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

    • 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

    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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