SM43C:
Magnetic Energy Dissipation through Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory and Heliophysical Plasmas II

Session ID#: 3718

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2018 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Primary Convener:  Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
Co-conveners:  Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

7831 Laboratory studies and experimental techniques [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7846 Plasma energization [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SM43C-01
Coronal Signatures of Magnetic Energy Dissipation in Solar Eruptions (Invited) (3529)
Sam Krucker, FHNW, Windisch, Switzerland; ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
SM43C-02
Ion and Electron Bulk Heating in Magnetic Reconnection: Dependence on the Inflow Alfvén Speed (19384)
Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, John T Gosling, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Goetz Paschmann, The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, Marit Oieroset, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom and Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
SM43C-03
Instabilities in the separatrices of asymmetric reconnection at the dayside magnetopause (12638)
Daniel Bruce Graham1, Andris Vaivads2, Yuri V Khotyaintsev1, Henrik Viberg1 and Mats Andre1, (1)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Space and Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden
SM43C-04
Theoretical Studies of Energy Conversion in Magnetic Reconnection (Invited) (4249)
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States
SM43C-05
Ion Temperature Anisotropy across Reconnection Exhaust Jets (21153)
Heli Hietala, Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom and James P McFadden, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
SM43C-06
Study of Energy Conversion and Partitioning in the Magnetic Reconnection Layer in Laboratory and Space Plasmas (Invited) (2951)
Masaaki Yamada, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
SM43C-07
Laboratory Magnetic Reconnection Experiments with Colliding, Magnetized Laser-Produced Plasma Plumes (31282)
William Fox1, Amitava Bhattacharjee2, Wenjun Deng1, Clément Moissard3, Kai Germaschewski4, Gennady Fiksel5, Daniel Barnak5, Po-Yu Chang5, Suxing Hu6 and Philip Nilson6, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (3)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY, United States, (6)University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, United States
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