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physics.plasm-ph2026
Counter-streaming heat-flux closure for electron-only collisionless magnetic reconnection
Madox C. McGrae-Menge, Jacob R. Pierce, Maria Almanza +6
In electron-only collisionless magnetic reconnection (MR), a regime of growing importance in turbulent space plasmas, electrons develop strongly non-Maxwellian distributions that i…
physics.plasm-ph2025
Effects of Multi-scale Coupling on Particle Acceleration and Energy Partition in Magnetic Reconnection
Alexander Velberg, Adam Stanier, Xiaocan Li +3
The interplay between kinetic and macroscopic scales during magnetic reconnection is investigated using particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic island coalescence in the strongly-…
physics.plasm-ph2024
MANTA: A Negative-Triangularity NASEM-Compliant Fusion Pilot Plant
MANTA Collaboration, G. Rutherford, H. S. Wilson +38
The MANTA (Modular Adjustable Negative Triangularity ARC-class) design study investigated how negative-triangularity (NT) may be leveraged in a compact, fusion pilot plant (FPP) to…