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

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Hantao Ji, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Hantao Ji, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-conveners:  Vassilis Angelopoulos, UCLA---ESS/IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States and William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Coronal Signatures of Magnetic Energy Dissipation in Solar Eruptions
Sam Krucker, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland; Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States
2:00 PM
 
Ion and Electron Bulk Heating in Magnetic Reconnection: Dependence on the Inflow Alfvén Speed
Tai-Duc Phan1, James Frederick Drake1,2, Michael A Shay3, John T Gosling4, Goetz Paschmann5, Marit Oieroset1, Masaki Fujimoto6, Jonathan P Eastwood7 and Vassilis Angelopoulos8, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, (6)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, (7)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2:20 PM
 
Instabilities in the separatrices of asymmetric reconnection at the dayside magnetopause
Daniel Bruce Graham, Andris Vaivads, Yuri V Khotyaintsev, Henrik Viberg and Mats Andre, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
2:34 PM
 
Theoretical Studies of Energy Conversion in Magnetic Reconnection
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
2:54 PM
 
Ion Temperature Anisotropy across Reconnection Exhaust Jets
Heli Hietala1, James Frederick Drake2, Tai-Duc Phan3, Jonathan P Eastwood4 and James P McFadden3, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
3:08 PM
 
3:28 PM
 
Laboratory Magnetic Reconnection Experiments with Colliding, Magnetized Laser-Produced Plasma Plumes
William R Fox II1, Amitava Bhattacharjee1, Wenjun Deng1, Clément Moissard2, Kai Germaschewski3, Gennady Fiksel4, Daniel Barnak4, Po-Yu Chang4, Suxing Hu4 and Philip Nilson4, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY, United States