Fast collisionless reconnection and electron heating in strongly magnetized plasmas.
Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized (low-beta), weakly collisional plasmas is investigated by using a novel fluid-kinetic model [Zocco and Schekochihin, Phys. Plasmas 18, 102309 (2011)] which retains nonisothermal electron kinetics. It is shown that electron heating via Landau damping (line...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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