Magnetic Reconnection, Turbulence, Dynamo, Collisionless Shock and Dusty Plasmas

* highlights student work

1. P. T. Campbell*, B. K. Russell*, C. F. Dong, G. Fiksel, P. M. Nilson, A. G. R. Thomas, C. A. Walsh, K. M. Krushelnick, and L. Willingale, Formation of collisionless shocks driven by strongly magnetized relativistic electrons in the laboratory, Phys. Rev. Research 6, L012016 (2024).

2. S. Yang*, L. Wang, C. F. Dong, Discovery of double hall pattern associated with collisionless magnetic reconnection in dusty plasmas, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc 523, 928–933 (2023). arXiv:2206.08553

3. D. Li*, Y. Chen, C. F. Dong, L. Wang, G. Toth, Numerical study of magnetic island coalescence using magnetohydrodynamics with adaptively embedded particle-in-cell model, AIP Advances 13, 015126 (2023). arXiv:2212.07980

4. C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Y.-M. Huang, L. Comisso, T. A. Sandstrom, A. Bhattacharjee, Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Science Advances 8, eabn7627 (2022). arXiv:2210.10736. News Stories in PPPL, EurekAlert, Phys.org, Scienmag.

5. C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Y.-M. Huang, L. Comisso, A. Bhattacharjee, Role of the Plasmoid Instability in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165101 (2018). arXiv:1804.07361

6. A. E. Raymond*, C. F. Dong, A. McKelvey, C. Zulick, N. Alexander, A. Bhattacharjee, P. T. Campbell, H. Chen, V. Chvykov, E. Del Rio, P. Fitzsimmons, W. Fox, B. Hou, A. Maksimchuk, C. Mileham, J. Nees, P. M. Nilson, C. Stoeckl, A. G. R. Thomas, M. S. Wei, V. Yanovsky, K. Krushelnick, and L. Willingale, Relativistic electron driven magnetic reconnection in the laboratory, Phys. Rev. E 98, 043207 (2018). arXiv:1610.06866

7. C.F. Dong, M.M. Cowee, and D. Winske, Plasma and wave properties downstream of Martian bow shock: Hybrid simulations, in "Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School Research Reports", LA-UR 13-29060, Los Alamos National Lab (2013). 

8. X. Zheng, Y.H. Chen, Z.Q. Hu, G.W. Wang, F. Huang, C.F. Dong, and M. Y. Yu, Dust voids in collision-dominated plasmas with negative ions, Phys. Plasmas 16, 023701 (2009).