Influence of 3D plasmoid dynamics on the transition from collisional to kinetic reconnection

Stanier, Adam John; Daughton, William Scott; Le, Ari Yitzchak; Li, Xiaocan; Bird, Robert Francis

doi:10.1063/1.5100737

Title: Influence of 3D plasmoid dynamics on the transition from collisional to kinetic reconnection

Journal Article · Wed Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5100737· OSTI ID:1558975

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Within the resistive magnetohydrodynamic model, high-Lundquist number reconnection layers are unstable to the plasmoid instability, leading to a turbulent evolution where the reconnection rate can be independent of the underlying resistivity. However, the physical relevance of these results remains questionable for many applications. First, the reconnection electric field is often well above the runaway limit, implying that collisional resistivity is invalid. Furthermore, both theory and simulations suggest that plasmoid formation may rapidly induce a transition to kinetic scales, due to the formation of thin current sheets. Here, this problem is studied for the first time using a first-principles kinetic simulation with a Fokker-Planck collision operator in 3D. The low-β reconnecting current layer thins rapidly due to Joule heating before the onset of the oblique plasmoid instability. Linear growth rates for standard (k_y = 0) tearing modes agree with semicollisional boundary layer theory, but the angular spectrum of oblique (|k_y|>0) modes is significantly narrower than predicted. In the nonlinear regime, flux-ropes formed by the instability undergo complex interactions as they are advected and rotated by the reconnection outflow jets, leading to a turbulent state with stochastic magnetic field. In a manner similar to previous 2D results, super-Dreicer fields induce a transition to kinetic reconnection in thin current layers that form between flux-ropes. These results may be testable within new laboratory experiments.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC). Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) (SC-24); USDOE

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OSTI ID:: 1558975

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Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-23318; TRN: US2000271

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 26, Issue 7; ISSN 1070-664X

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