186 citations · 269 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for
5 papers
Multi-species Ion Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection with Hybrid-kinetic Simulations
Qile Zhang, Fan Guo, William Daughton +4
Magnetic reconnection drives multi-species particle acceleration broadly in space and astrophysics. We perform the first 3D hybrid simulations (fluid electrons, kinetic ions) that…
Collisionless Kinetic Theory of Oblique Tearing Instabilities
Scott D. Baalrud, Amitava Bhattacharjee, William Daughton
The linear dispersion relation for collisionless kinetic tearing instabilities is calculated for a Harris equilibrium. In contrast to the conventional 2D geometry, which considers…
Why does steady-state magnetic reconnection have a maximum local rate of order 0.1?
Yi-Hsin Liu, M. Hesse, F. Guo +4
Simulations suggest collisionless steady-state magnetic reconnection of Harris-type current sheets proceeds with a rate of order 0.1, independent of dissipation mechanism. We argue…
Influence of the Lower Hybrid Drift Instability on the onset of Magnetic Reconnection
Paolo Ricci, J. U. Brackbill, W. Daughton +1
Two-dimensional and three-dimensional kinetic simulation results reveal the importance of the Lower-Hybrid Drift Instability LHDI to the onset of magnetic reconnection. Both explic…
Kinetic simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection in presence of a guide field
P. Ricci, J. U. Brackbill, W. Daughton +1
The results of kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection in Harris current sheets are analyzed. A range of guide fields is considered to study reconnection in plasmas characteri…