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Ion acceleration and direct ion heating in three-component magnetic reconnection

Author(s) -

Yuka Ono,

Masataka Yamada,

T. Akao

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/226405

Subject(s) - ion , plasma , magnetic reconnection , physics , particle acceleration , magnetohydrodynamic drive , toroid , atomic physics , magnetic field , population , magnetohydrodynamics , nuclear physics , demography , quantum mechanics , sociology

Ion acceleration and direct ion heating in magnetic reconnection are experimentally observed during counterhelicity merging of two plasma toroids. Plasma ions are accelerated up to order of the Alfen speed through contraction of the reconnected field-lines with three-components. The large increase in ion thermal energy (from 10 eV up to 200 eV) is attributed to the direct conversion of the magnetic energy into the unmagnetized ion population. This observation is consistent with the magnetohydrodynamic and macro-particle simulations

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