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@inproceedings{Franci:2020,
author = {Franci, L and Papini, E},
pages = {311--318},
title = {Turbulence and magnetic reconnection in low-beta plasmas},
year = {2020}
}
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TY - CPAPER
AB - Understanding how the turbulent energy cascade terminates at small scales in collisionless plasmas represents a long-standing challenge for the plasma community, and is strictly related to the open issues of coronal heating and solar wind heating and acceleration. Here we investigate the dynamics of low-beta turbulent plasmas by performing high-resolution 2D and 3D hybrid particle-in-cell simulations of the near-Sun environment. Our aim is to infer how the low plasma beta, typical of the solar corona, affects the development and properties of turbulence and magnetic reconnection and their interplay. We indeed identify a new plasma regime at ion characteristic scales. Such regime has different properties of the electromagnetic and plasma fluctuations with respect to what is typically observed in the solar wind and in the Earth’s magnetosheath. A stronger activity of magnetic reconnection is also observed. We expect that such regime may be relevant for a broad class of low-beta plasmas, both in space, astrophysical, and laboratory environments.
AU - Franci,L
AU - Papini,E
EP - 318
PY - 2020///
SN - 1824-016X
SP - 311
TI - Turbulence and magnetic reconnection in low-beta plasmas
ER -