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Using high resolution Cluster satellite observations, we show that the turbulent solar wind is populated by magnetic discontinuities at different scales, going from proton down to electron scales. The structure of these layers resembles the…

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Quasi-static magnetic-fields up to $800\,$T are generated in the interaction of intense laser pulses ($500\,$J, $1\,$ns, $10^{17}\,$W/cm$^2$) with capacitor-coil targets of different materials. The reproducible magnetic-field peak and…

Magnetic reconnection is an explosive process that accelerates particles to high energies in Earth's magnetosphere, offering a unique natural laboratory to study this phenomenon. This study investigates how well data-driven fully kinetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Nadja Reisinger , Fabio Bacchini

Magnetic reconnection, a fundamental plasma process associated with a rapid dissipation of magnetic energy, is believed to power many disruptive phenomena in laboratory plasma devices, the Earth magnetosphere, and the solar corona.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Jonathan C. McKinney

We use 3D fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations to study the occurrence of magnetic reconnection in a simulation of decaying turbulence created by anisotropic counter-propagating low-frequency Alfv\'en waves consistent with…

We report simulation results for turbulent magnetic reconnection obtained using a newly developed Reynolds-averaged magnetohydrodynamics model. We find that the initial Harris current sheet develops in three ways, depending on the strength…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Katsuaki Higashimori , Nobumitsu Yokoi , Masahiro Hoshino

Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in the energy release process for different kinds of solar eruptions and activities. The rapid solar eruption requires a fast reconnection model. Plasmoid instability in the reconnecting current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Zehao Tang , Yajie Chen , Yuhao Chen , Jialiang Hu , Jun Lin

The present study, investigates the modulation of plasma wakefields in dense magnetized plasma driven by relativistic electron beams under transverse RF excitation. A self consistent theoretical framework, comprising the RF vector…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 A. A. Molavi Choobini , M. Shahmansouri

Magnetic reconnection is a process whereby magnetic field lines in different directions "reconnect" with each other, resulting in the rearrangement of magnetic field topology together with the conversion of magnetic field energy into the…

Interaction of an ultrastrong short laser pulse with non-prepolarized near-critical density plasma is investigated in an ultrarelativistic regime, with an emphasis on the radiative spin polarization of ejected electrons. Our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

The reversibility of the transfer of energy from the magnetic field to the surrounding plasma during magnetic reconnection is examined. Trajectories of test particles in an analytic model of the fields demonstrate that irreversibility is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 M. Xuan , M. Swisdak , J. F. Drake

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process that plays a critical role not only in energy release in the solar atmosphere, but also in fusion, astrophysical, and other space plasma environments. One of the challenges in explaining…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 L. -J. Guo , B. De Pontieu , Y. -M. Huang , H. Peter , A. Bhattacharjee

Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas plays a crucial role in a wide range of solar, astrophysical, and laboratory environments. While reconnection in such plasmas is commonly characterized by the ion-neutral coupling strength…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Liang Wang , Chuanfei Dong , Yi-Min Huang , Yue Yuan , Xinmin Li , Yang Zhang

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in many laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasma contexts. Solar flares serve as an outstanding laboratory to study the magnetic reconnection and the associated energy release and…

We present two-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of line-tied asymmetric magnetic reconnection in the context of solar flare and coronal mass ejection current sheets. The reconnection process is made asymmetric along the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. A. Murphy , M. P. Miralles , C. L. Pope , J. C. Raymond , H. D. Winter , K. K. Reeves , D. B. Seaton , A. A. van Ballegooijen , J. Lin

This study presents theoretical and numerical investigation of the coupled longitudinal and radial wakefields excited by ultrarelativistic electron beams propagating through a cold plasma channel subjected to an external axial magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Ali Asghar Molavi Choobini , Mehran Shahmansouri

During magnetically dominated relativistic reconnection, inflowing plasma depletes the initial relativistic pressure at the x-line and collisionless plasma heating inside the diffusion region is insufficient to overcome this loss. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-01 Yi-Hsin Liu , Shan-Chang Lin , Michael Hesse , Fan Guo , Xiaocan Li , Haocheng Zhang , Sarah Peery

In the presence of an external magnetic field, wake fields generated by a short laser pulse can propagate out of the plasma, and thereby provide information about the electron density profile. A method for reconstructing the density profile…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Servin , Gert Brodin

Magnetic reconnection is invoked as an efficient particle accelerator in a variety of astrophysical sources of non-thermal high-energy radiation. With large-scale two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of relativistic reconnection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Maria Petropoulou , Lorenzo Sironi

We simulate magnetic reconnection in electron-positron (pair) plasma using a collisionless two-fluid model with isotropic pressure. In this model the resistive, Hall, and electrokinetic pressure terms are absent from the curl of Ohm's law,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-03 E. A. Johnson , J. A. Rossmanith