Electron and Ion Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in Weakly Collisional Plasmas
Plasma Physics
2015-04-14 v2
Abstract
Gyrokinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection are presented to investigate plasma heating for strongly magnetized, weakly collisional plasmas. For a low plasma beta case, parallel and perpendicular phase mixing strongly enhance energy dissipation yielding electron heating. Heating occurs for a long time period after a dynamical process of magnetic reconnection ended. For a higher beta case, the ratio of ion to electron dissipation rate increases, suggesting that ion heating (via phase-mixing) may become an important dissipation channel in high beta plasmas.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.2728,
title = {Electron and Ion Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in Weakly Collisional Plasmas},
author = {Ryusuke Numata and Nuno F. Loureiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.2728},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in JPSJ Suppl. [Proceedings of the 12th Asia Pacific Physics Conference]