Japanese Researchers Find New Classes of Electron Orbits
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 10:32
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers in Japan have used a new Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulator to understand how magnetic reconnection works for the tenuous plasma surrounding our Earth and have identified new classes of electron orbits that help scientists understand the characteristics of the fast jets of electrons that stream from the reconnection region. The researchers explain their results this week in Physics of Plasmas.