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Single-Particle Motion and Collective Plasma Dynamics in Thin Current Sheets Robyn Dunstan, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, (Advisors: P. Guzdar and M. Sitnov) TREND Fair 2005 Anti-Parallel Magnetic Field x B Curved


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Single-Particle Motion and Collective Plasma Dynamics in Thin Current Sheets

Robyn Dunstan, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, (Advisors: P. Guzdar and M. Sitnov)

TREND Fair 2005

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Anti-Parallel Magnetic Field

x

B

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Curved Magnetic Field

ˆ i ˆ k

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Curved Magnetic Field

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Magnetic Fields with a Shear Component

ˆ i

ˆ j ˆ k

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Particle Simulations

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Conclusion

  • Types of orbits in an anti-parallel magnetic field
  • Orbital drift
  • Chaos in a curved magnetic field
  • Effect of a shear magnetic field component
  • Particle simulations