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Interplay between the non-resonant streaming instability and self-generated pressure anisotropies
Alexis Marret, Andrea Ciardi, Roch Smets
The non-thermal particles escaping from collisionless shocks into the surrounding medium can trigger a non-resonant streaming instability that converts parts of their drift kinetic…
Experimental mitigation of fast magnetic reconnection in multiple interacting laser-produced plasmas
S. Bolaños, R. Smets, C. Courtois +11
The meeting of astrophysical plasmas and their magnetic fields creates many reconnection sites. We experimentally compare the reconnection rate of laser-driven magnetic reconnectio…
PHARE : Parallel hybrid particle-in-cell code with patch-based adaptive mesh refinement
Nicolas Aunai, Roch Smets, Andrea Ciardi +5
Modeling multi-scale collisionless magnetized processes constitutes an important numerical challenge. By treating electrons as a fluid and ions kinetically, the so-called hybrid Pa…
Numerical investigation of spallation neutrons generated from petawatt-scale laser-driven proton beams
B. Martinez, S. N. Chen, S. Bolaños +15
Due to their high cost of acquisition and operation, there are still a limited number of high-yield, high-flux neutron source facilities worldwide. In this context, laser-driven ne…
A new method to dispatch split particles in Particle-In-Cell codes
Roch Smets, Nicolas Aunais, ANdrea Ciardi +3
Particle-In-Cell codes are widely used for plasma physics simulations. It is often the case that particles within a computational cell need to be split to improve the statistics or…
On the growth of the thermally modified non-resonant streaming instability
Alexis Marret, Andrea Ciardi, Roch Smets +1
The cosmic rays non-resonant streaming instability is believed to be the source of substantial magnetic field amplification. In this work we investigate the effects of the ambient…
Numerical study of non-gyrotropic electron pressure effects in collisionless magnetic reconnection
A. Sladkov, R. Smets, N. Aunai +1
We investigate the time evolution of the six-component electron pressure tensor in a hybrid code studying consequences for the two-dimensional reconnection process in an initially…
Laboratory evidence of the halting of magnetic reconnection by a weak guide field
S. Bolanos, R. Smets, S. N. Chen +10
Magnetic reconnection occurs when two plasmas having co-planar but anti-parallel magnetic fields meet. At the contact point, the field is locally annihilated and the magnetic energ…
Comparison between hybrid and fully kinetic models of asymmetric magnetic reconnection: coplanar and guide field configurations
Nicolas Aunai, Michael Hesse, Seiji Zenitani +4
Magnetic reconnection occurring in collisionless environments is a multi-scale process involving both ion and electron kinetic processes. Because of their small mass, the electron…