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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


  1. 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

  2. Anti-Parallel Magnetic Field x � B

  3. Curved Magnetic Field ˆ k ˆ i

  4. Curved Magnetic Field

  5. Magnetic Fields with a Shear Component ˆ k ˆ i ˆ j

  6. Particle Simulations

  7. 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

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