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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Hantao Ji, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, 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:

 
Kinetic processes of global energy conversion following magnetotail reconnection.
Vassilis Angelopoulos 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
Xueyi Wang, Auburn Univ, Auburn, AL, United States, Yu Lin, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States and Liu Chen, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in Highly Magnetized Plasmas
Fan Guo1, William S Daughton2, Yi-Hsin Liu1, Hui Li1 and Xiaocan Li3, (1)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Energy Conversion and Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection
Xiaocan Li1, Fan Guo2, William S Daughton3, Hui Li2, Shengtai Li2, Yi-Hsin Liu2 and Gang Li1, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
FLARE (Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments): A Major Next-Step for Laboratory Studies of Magnetic Reconnection
Hantao Ji1, Amitava Bhattacharjee1, Stewart Prager1, William S Daughton2, Stuart D Bale3, Troy A Carter4, Neal Crocker4, James Frederick Drake5, Jan Egedal6, John Sarff6, John Wallace6, Elena Belova7, Robert Ellis7, William R Fox II7, Phil Heitzenroeder7, Mike Kalish7, Jonathan Jara-Almonte7, Clayton Edward Myers7, Weiguo Que7, Yang Ren7, Peter Titus7, Masaaki Yamada7 and Jongsoo Yoo7, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (7)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Coronal Electron Acceleration by Double Layer Confinement
Qile Zhang, James Frederick Drake and Marc M Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Characteristics of Electron Holes Generated in the Separatrix Region during Anti-Parallel Magnetic Reconnection
Quanming Lu, Can Huang, Mingyu Wu, Peiran Wang and Shui Wang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Electron Heating and Acceleration in 2D Collisionless Reconnection
Joel Dahlin1, James Frederick Drake1 and Marc M Swisdak2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Opportunities in TREX, a New Terrestrial Reconnection EXperiment.
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
Colby C Haggerty1, Michael A Shay1, James Frederick Drake2, Tai-Duc Phan3, Pin Wu1 and Marc M Swisdak2, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Scaling of Ion Heating During Magnetic Reconnection: Kinetic PIC Simulations
Michael A Shay1, Colby C Haggerty2, Christian McHugh2, Tai-Duc Phan3, James Frederick Drake4 and Marit Oieroset3, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
In situ spacecraft observations of suprathermal ion acceleration in the reconnection jet braking region
Alessandro Retino1, Yuri V Khotyaintsev2, Andris Vaivads2, Olivier Le Contel1, Huishan Fu3, Bertalan Zieger4, Rumi Nakamura5, Anton Artemyev6 and Elena A Kronberg7, (1)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Palaiseau, France, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Beihang University, Beijing, China, (4)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (6)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (7)The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
 
Ion acceleration dependence on shear angle in dayside magnetopause reconnection
Sarah K. Vines1,2, Stephen Fuselier1, Karlheinz J Trattner3, Steven M Petrinec4 and James Frederick Drake5, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Cupertino, CA, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States