SM13A:
Magnetic Energy Dissipation through Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory and Heliophysical Plasmas I Posters

Session ID#: 4352

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chair:  Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, 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:

 
Kinetic processes of global energy conversion following magnetotail reconnection. (14022)
Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Investigation of Magnetic Reconnection by Gyrokinetic Electron and Fully Kinetic Ion Particle Simulation (25761)
Xueyi Wang, Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, AL, United States, Yu Lin, Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States and Liu Chen, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in Highly Magnetized Plasmas (16350)
Fan Guo, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, Hui Li, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, United States and Xiaocan Li, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Energy Conversion and Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection (14297)
Xiaocan Li1, Fan Guo2, William S Daughton3, Hui Li4, Shengtai Li2, Yi-Hsin Liu5 and Gang Li6, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Space Sciences and CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
FLARE (Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments): A Major Next-Step for Laboratory Studies of Magnetic Reconnection (29814)
Hantao Ji1, Amitava Bhattacharjee2, Stewart Prager2, William S Daughton3, Stuart D Bale4, Troy A Carter5, Neal Crocker5, James Frederick Drake6, Jan Egedal7, John Sarff7, John Wallace7, Elena Belova8, Robert Ellis8, William Fox8, Phil Heitzenroeder8, Mike Kalish8, Jonathan Jara-Almonte8, Clayton Edward Myers8, Weiguo Que8, Yang Ren8, Peter Titus8, Masaaki Yamada8 and Jongsoo Yoo9, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (8)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
 
Coronal Electron Acceleration by Double Layer Confinement (30497)
Qile Zhang1, James Frederick Drake1 and Marc Swisdak2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
 
Characteristics of Electron Holes Generated in the Separatrix Region during Anti-Parallel Magnetic Reconnection (6441)
Quanming Lu1, Can Huang2, Mingyu Wu2, Peiran Wang2 and Shui Wang2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Hefei, China, (2)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Electron Heating and Acceleration in 2D Collisionless Reconnection (30499)
Joel Dahlin1, James Frederick Drake1 and Marc Swisdak2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, United States
 
Opportunities in TREX, a New Terrestrial Reconnection EXperiment. (30651)
Jan Egedal, Joseph Olson, Douglass Endrizzi and Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Electron Heating During Magnetic Reconnection: The Interplay of Parallel Electric Fields and Fermi-Bounce Acceleration (12949)
Colby C Haggerty1, Michael A Shay2, James Frederick Drake3, Tai Phan4, Pin Wu1 and Marc Swisdak5, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, United States
 
Scaling of Ion Heating During Magnetic Reconnection: Kinetic PIC Simulations (12956)
Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Colby C Haggerty, University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, United States, Christian McHugh, University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Marit Oieroset, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
In situ spacecraft observations of suprathermal ion acceleration in the reconnection jet braking region (20967)
Alessandro Retino, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/ Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France, Yuri V Khotyaintsev, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, Andris Vaivads, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Space and Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, Olivier Le Contel, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, Huishan Fu, Beihang University, Beijing, China, Bertalan Zieger, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Rumi Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Elena A Kronberg, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany
 
Ion acceleration dependence on shear angle in dayside magnetopause reconnection (14584)
Sarah K Vines1,2, Stephen A Fuselier2, Karlheinz J Trattner3, Steven M Petrinec4 and James Frederick Drake5, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Cupertino, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States