Particle-acceleration by turbulent magnetohydrodynamic reconnection

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Oct 1984

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Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007), vol. 53, Oct. 8, 1984, p. 1449-1452. Previously announced in STAR as N84-26409.

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Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamics, Particle Acceleration, Turbulence, Electric Fields, Interpolation, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Reynolds Number, Trajectories, Vorticity

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Test particles in a two dimensional, turbulent MHD simulation are found to undergo significant acceleration. The magnetic field configuration is a periodic sheet pinch which undergoes reconnection. The test particles are trapped in the reconnection region for times of order an Alfven transit time in the large electric fields that characterize the turbulent reconnection process at the relatively large magnetic Reynolds number used in the simulation. The maximum speed attained by these particles is consistent with an analytic estimate which depends on the reconnection electric field, the Alfven speed, and the ratio of Larmor period to the Alfven transit time.

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