Plasma heating by collisionless magnetic reconnection - Analysis and computation

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Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....98.4013m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A3, p. 4013-4040.

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Collisionless Plasmas, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Particle Acceleration, Plasma Heating, Electric Fields, Fractals, Magnetic Flux, Vlasov Equations

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Analytic and numerical results on particle acceleration in 2D collisionless magnetic reconnection are presented. The particles are followed until they reach an outgoing flux surface at the same distance from the origin as the starting surface. The magnetic moment is not conserved for particles passing through the unmagnetized region around the X line at the origin. Other particles cross the separatrix without passing near the X line. The magnetic moment of the first class of outgoing particles is randomized, whereas it can be considered for the second class. The analytic model is based upon the observation of the final kinetic energy as a function of the initial conditions. Analytic results are shown to predict a Maxwellian tail for the distribution function in the perpendicular kinetic energy, with this energy much greater than the parallel kinetic energy. Numerical results showing that the predicted tail temperature agrees with the numerically computed temperature to within 10 percent over 4 orders of magnitude in the electric field are presented.

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