Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales

Details Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales

2008-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/0805.0426v1

Physics

Plasma Physics

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.235001

Within a MHD approach we find magnetic reconnection to progress in two entirely different ways. The first is well-known: the laminar Sweet-Parker process. But a second, completely different and chaotic reconnection process is possible. This regime has properties of immediate practical relevance: i) it is much faster, developing on scales of the order of the Alfv\'en time, and ii) the areas of reconnection become distributed chaotically over a macroscopic region. The onset of the faster process is the formation of closed circulation patterns where the jets going out of the reconnection regions turn around and forces their way back in, carrying along copious amounts of magnetic flux.

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