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Laboratory study of magnetic reconnection in lunar-relevant mini-magnetospheres
Lucas Rovige, Filipe D. Cruz, Robert S. Dorst +7
Mini-magnetospheres are small ion-scale structures that are well-suited to studying kinetic-scale physics of collisionless space plasmas. Such ion-scale magnetospheres can be found…
Strong collisionless coupling between an unmagnetized driver plasma and a magnetized background plasma
Filipe D. Cruz, Derek. B. Schaeffer, Fábio Cruz +1
Fast-exploding plasmas traveling though magnetized, collisionless plasmas can occur in a variety of physical systems, such as supernova remnants, coronal mass ejections, and laser-…
Laser-Driven, Ion-Scale Magnetospheres in Laboratory Plasmas. I. Experimental Platform and First Results
D. B. Schaeffer, F. D. Cruz, R. S. Dorst +7
Magnetospheres are a ubiquitous feature of magnetized bodies embedded in a plasma flow. While large planetary magnetospheres have been studied for decades by spacecraft, ion-scale…
Laser-Driven, Ion-Scale Magnetospheres in Laboratory Plasmas. II. Particle-in-cell Simulations
Filipe D. Cruz, Derek B. Schaeffer, Fábio Cruz +1
Ion-scale magnetospheres have been observed around comets, weakly-magnetized asteroids, and localized regions on the Moon, and provide a unique environment to study kinetic-scale p…
Kinetic instability in inductively oscillatory plasma equilibrium
Fábio Cruz, Thomas Grismayer, Luis O. Silva
A uniform in space, oscillatory in time plasma equilibrium sustained by a time-dependent current density is analytically and numerically studied resorting to particle-in-cell simul…
Formation of collisionless shocks in magnetized plasma interaction with kinetic-scale obstacles
F. Cruz, E. P. Alves, R. A. Bamford +3
We investigate the formation of collisionless magnetized shocks triggered by the interaction between magnetized plasma flows and miniature-sized (order of plasma kinetic-scales) ma…
Quantum Electrodynamics vacuum polarization solver
Thomas Grismayer, Rui Torres, Pedro Carneiro +3
The self-consistent modeling of vacuum polarization due to virtual electron-positron fluctuations is of relevance for many near term experiments associated with high intensity radi…