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The role of guide field in magnetic reconnection driven by island coalescence
A. Stanier, W. Daughton, Andrei N. Simakov +5
A number of studies have considered how the rate of magnetic reconnection scales in large and weakly collisional systems by the modelling of long reconnecting current sheets. Howev…
Two-Stage Bulk Electron Heating in the Diffusion Region of Anti-Parallel Symmetric Reconnection
Ari Le, Jan Egedal, William Daughton
Electron bulk energization in the diffusion region during anti-parallel symmetric reconnection entails two stages. First, the inflowing electrons are adiabatically trapped and ener…
Spacecraft observations and analytic theory of crescent-shaped electron distributions in asymmetric magnetic reconnection
J. Egedal, A. Le, W. Daughton +8
Supported by a kinetic simulation, we derive an exclusion energy parameter providing a lower kinetic energy bound for an electron to cross from one inflow region to the…
A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas
Yi-Hsin Liu, Michael Hesse, Fan Guo +2
A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas is developed and validated by the fully kinetic simulation. Through considering the force balance…
Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in a Low-beta Pair Plasma
Fan Guo, Hui Li, William Daughton +2
Plasma energization through magnetic reconnection in the magnetically-dominated regime featured by low plasma beta () and/or high magnetization ($σ= B^2/(4 π…
A Two-Fluid Study of Oblique Tearing Modes in a Force-Free Current Sheet
Cihan Akcay, William Daughton, Vyacheslav S. Lukin +1
Kinetic simulations have demonstrated that three-dimensional reconnection in collisionless regimes proceeds through the formation and interaction of magnetic flux ropes, which are…