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Reconnection-induced electron energization in magnetospheric Kelvin-Helmholtz dynamics
Silvia Ferro, Fabio Bacchini, Giuseppe Arrò +2
The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a major driver of multiscale plasma dynamics at velocity shear layers, where it can promote the formation of current sheets and the onset…
Turbulent Magnetogenesis and Large-scale Magnetic Dynamo Amplification in Ion--electron Plasmas
Fabio Bacchini, Francesco Pucci, Sergio Servidio +2
Using fully kinetic simulations that capture unprecedentedly large (from electron to ion) scales, we study magnetogenesis driven by continuous large-scale forcing until nonlinear d…
Plasma Mixing Driven by the Collisionless Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability: Insights from fully kinetic simulation and density-based diagnostics
Silvia Ferro, Fabio Bacchini, Giuseppe Arrò +2
Simulations and observations of the low-latitude magnetosphere-magnetosheath boundary layer indicate that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) drives vortex structures that enhan…
Characterization of the Low Energy Excess using a NUCLEUS AlO detector
H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +62
The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos using low-threshold, gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters. Similar to other…
Evaluation of scale-dependent kurtosis with HelioSwarm
Francesco Pecora, Francesco Pucci, Francesco Malara +4
Plasma turbulence involves complex, nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic fields and charged particles across multiple scales. Studying these phenomena in space plasmas, like t…
Large Scale Linear Magnetic Holes with Magnetic Mirror Properties in Hybrid Simulations of Solar Wind Turbulence
Giuseppe Arrò, Francesco Califano, Francesco Pucci +2
Magnetic holes (MHs) are coherent magnetic field dips whose size ranges from fluid to kinetic scale, ubiquitously observed in the heliosphere and in planetary environments. Despite…
Joint action of phase mixing and nonlinear effects in MHD waves propagating in coronal loops
Claudio Meringolo, Francesco Pucci, Giuseppe Nisticò +3
We investigate the interplay of phase mixing and the nonlinear turbulent cascade in the evolution and dissipation of Alfvén waves using compressible magnetohydrodynamics numerical…
Turbulence and particle energization in twisted flux ropes in solar-wind conditions
Oreste Pezzi, Domenico Trotta, Simone Benella +6
Context. The mechanisms regulating the transport and energization of charged particles in space and astrophysical plasmas are still debated. Plasma turbulence is known to be a powe…
Generation of sub-ion scale magnetic holes from electron shear flow instabilities in plasma turbulence
Giuseppe Arrò, Francesco Pucci, Francesco Califano +2
Magnetic holes (MHs) are coherent structures associated with strong magnetic field depressions in magnetized plasmas. They are observed in many astrophysical environments at a wide…
Probing spin-dependent dark matter interactions with Li
G. Angloher, G. Benato, A. Bento +55
CRESST is one of the most prominent direct detection experiments for dark matter particles with sub-GeV/c mass. One of the advantages of the CRESST experiment is the possibilit…
Kinetic heating by Alfvén waves in magnetic shears
Fabio Bacchini, Francesco Pucci, Francesco Malara +1
With first-principles kinetic simulations, we show that a large-scale Alfvén wave (AW) propagating in an inhomogeneous background decays into kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs), triggerin…
Turbulent magneto-genesis in a collisionless plasma
F. Pucci, M. Viviani, F. Valentini +3
We investigate an efficient mechanism for generating magnetic fields in turbulent, collisionless plasmas. By using fully kinetic, particle-in-cell simulations of an initially non-m…
Bridging hybrid- and full-kinetic models with Landau-fluid electrons: I. 2D magnetic reconnection
Francesco Finelli, Silvio S. Cerri, Francesco Califano +4
Magnetic reconnection (MR) plays a fundamental role in plasma dynamics under many different conditions, from space and astrophysical environments to laboratory devices. High-resolu…
Kinetic Alfvén wave generation by velocity shear in collisionless plasmas
Teresa Maiorano, Adriana Settino, Francesco Malara +3
The evolution of a linearly-polarized, long-wavelength Alfvén wave --propagating in a collisionless magnetized plasma with a sheared parallel-directed velocity flow-- is here studi…
Local regimes of turbulence in 3D magnetic reconnection
G. Lapenta, F. Pucci, M. V. Goldman +1
The process of magnetic reconnection when studied in Nature or when modeled in 3D simulations differs in one key way from the standard 2D paradigmatic cartoon: it is accompanied by…
Interplay between Kelvin-Helmholtz and Lower-Hybrid Drift instabilities
Jérémy Dargent, Federico Lavorenti, Francesco Califano +3
Boundary layers in space and astrophysical plasmas are the location of complex dynamics where different mechanisms coexist and compete eventually leading to plasma mixing. In this…
Statistical analysis of ions in two-dimensional plasma turbulence
Francesco Pecora, Francesco Pucci, Giovanni Lapenta +2
The statistical properties of ions in two-dimensional fully developed turbulence have been compared between two different numerical algorithms. In particular, we compare Hybrid Par…
A violin sonata for reconnection
G. Lapenta, F. Pucci, M. V. Goldman +1
The process of magnetic reconnection when studied in Nature or when modeled in 3D simulations differs in one key way from the standard 2D paradigmatic cartoon: it is accompanied by…
Generation of turbulence in colliding reconnection jets
F. Pucci, W. H. Matthaeus, A. Chasapis +6
The collision of magnetic reconnection jets is studied by means of a three dimensional numerical simulation at kinetic scale, in the presence of a strong guide field. We show that…
Non-linear Waves and Instabilities Leading to Secondary Reconnection in Reconnection Outflows
Giovanni Lapenta, Francesco Pucci, Vyacheslav Olshevsky +4
Reconnection outflows are regions of intense recent scrutiny, from in situ observations and from simulations. These regions are host to a variety of instabilities and intense energ…
Energy transfer and electron energization in collisionless magnetic reconnection for different guide-field intensities
F. Pucci, S. Usami, H. Ji +7
Electron dynamics and energization are one of the key components of magnetic field dissipation in collisionless reconnection. In 2D numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection,…
Transition to kinetic turbulence at proton scales driven by large-amplitude Kinetic Alfvèn fluctuations
F. Valentini, C. L. Vasconez, O. Pezzi +3
Space plasmas are dominated by the presence of large-amplitude waves, large-scale inhomogeneities, kinetic effects and turbulence. Beside the homogeneous turbulence, generation of…
Activation of MHD reconnection on ideal timescales
S. Landi, E. Papini, L. Del Zanna +2
Magnetic reconnection in laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas is often invoked to explain explosive energy release and particle acceleration. However, the timescales involve…
Kinetic Alfvén waves generation by large-scale phase-mixing
C. L. Vasconez, F. Pucci, F. Valentini +3
One view of the solar-wind turbulence is that the observed highly anisotropic fluctuations at spatial scales near the proton inertial length may be considered as Kinetic Alfv…