• Validating the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) for applications in northern Europe: Ground magnetic perturbation validation 

  Kwagala, Norah Kaggwa; Hesse, Michael; Moretto, Therese; Tenfjord, Paul; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Tóth, Gábor; Gombosi, Tamás I.; Kolstø, Håkon Midthun; Spinnangr, Susanne Flø (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In this study we investigate the performance of the University of Michigan’s Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) in prediction of ground magnetic perturbations (ΔB) and their rate of change with time (dB/dt), which is ...

• Electron Heating by Debye-Scale Turbulence in Guide-Field Reconnection 

  Khotyaintsev, Yuri V.; Graham, Daniel B.; Steinvall, Konrad; Alm, Love; Vaivads, Andris; Johlander, Andreas; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Li, Wenya; Divin, Andrey; Fu, Huishan; Hwang, Kyoung-Joo; Burch, James L; Ahmadi, Narges; Le Contel, Olivier; Gershman, Daniel J; Russell, Christopher T.; Torbert, R. B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  We report electrostatic Debye-scale turbulence developing within the diffusion region of asymmetric magnetopause reconnection with a moderate guide field using observations by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. We show ...

• Jet suppression from a small to intermediate to large radius 

  Pablos Alfonso, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  We present predictions for jet suppression from small to intermediate to very large radius, for high energy jets created in heavy ion collisions at the LHC. We find that jet suppression is surprisingly independent of the ...

• Electron Acceleration and Thermalization at Magnetotail Separatrices 

  Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Hesse, Michael; Graham, Daniel B.; Khotyaintsev, Yuri V.; Tenfjord, Paul; Vaivads, Andris; Steinvall, Konrad; Xu, Yin; Gershman, Daniel J; Lindqvist, Per-Arne; Plaschke, Ferdinand; Burch, James L (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In this study we use the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to investigate the electron acceleration and thermalization occurring along the magnetic reconnection separatrices in the magnetotail. We find that initially cold ...

• Influence of Enhanced Planetary Wave Activity on the Polar Vortex Enhancement Related to Energetic Electron Precipitation 

  Asikainen, T.; Salminen, Antti; Maliniemi, Ville Aleksi; Mursula, K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The Northern polar vortex experiences considerable interannual variability, which is also reflected to tropospheric weather. Recent research has established a link between polar vortex variations and energetic electron ...

• Daedalus: A low-flying spacecraft for in situ exploration of the lower thermosphere-ionosphere 

  Sarris, Theodoros E.; Talaat, Elsayed R.; Palmroth, Minna; Dandouras, Iannis; Armandillo, Errico; Kervalishvili, Guram; Buchert, S. C.; Tourgaidis, Stylianos; Malaspina, David; Jaynes, Allison N.; Paschalidis, Nikolaos; Sample, John; Halekas, Jasper; Doornbos, Eelco; Lappas, Vaios; Moretto, Therese; Stolle, Claudia; Clilverd, Mark; Wu, Qian; Sandberg, Ingmar; Pirnaris, Panagiotis; Aikio, Anita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The Daedalus mission has been proposed to the European Space Agency (ESA) in response to the call for ideas for the Earth Observation program's 10th Earth Explorer. It was selected in 2018 as one of three candidates for a ...

• AE, DST, and Their SuperMAG Counterparts: The Effect of Improved Spatial Resolution in Geomagnetic Indices 

  Bergin, A.; Chapman, S.C.; Gjerløv, Jesper (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  For decades, geomagnetic indices have been used extensively to parameterize space weather events, as input to various models and as space weather specifications. The auroral electrojet (AE) index and disturbance storm time ...

• Constraints on Recoil Leader Properties Estimated from X-ray Emissions in Aircraft-Triggered Discharges 

  Skeie, Chris Alexander; Østgaard, Nikolai; Lehtinen, Nikolai; Sarria, David; Kochkin, Pavlo; de Boer, Boer; Bardet, M.; Allasia, C.; Flourens, F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  During Airbus aircraft campaigns flying into thunderstorms in 2014–2016, X-rays were observed during two stages of aircraft-triggered lightning: nanosecond pulses of X-rays associated with negative leader steps and bursts ...

• High‐density magnetospheric He+ at the dayside magnetopause and its effect on magnetic reconnection 

  Fuselier, Stephen A.; Haaland, Stein; Tenfjord, Paul; Paschmann, G; Toledo-Redondo, S; Malaspina, D; Kim, M.J.; Trattner, K.J.; Petrinec, S. M.; Giles, B. L.; Goldstein, J; Burch, J. L.; Strangeway, R. J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission are used to quantify the maximum effect of magnetospheric H+ and He+ on dayside magnetopause reconnection. A data base of current-sheet crossings from the first ...

• Characteristics of the Flank Magnetopause: MMS Results 

  Haaland, Stein; Paschmann, Götz; Oieroset, M; Phan, Tai D.; Hasegawa, Hiroshi; Fuselier, Stephen; COnstantinescu, Vlad; Eriksson, Stefan; Trattner, Karlheinz J.; Fadanelli, Sid; Tenfjord, Paul; Lavraud, Benoit; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Eastwood, Jonathan P.; Hietala, Heli; Burch, J (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  We have used a large number of magnetopause crossings by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to investigate macroscopic properties of this current sheet, with emphasis on the flanks of the magnetopause. Macroscopic ...

• Electron inflow velocities and reconnection rates at earth's magnetopause and magnetosheath 

  Burch, James L.; Webster, James M.; Hesse, Michael; Genestreti, Kevin J.; Denton, Richard E.; Phan, Tai D.; Hasegawa, Hiroshi; Cassak, Paul A.; Torbert, Roy B.; Giles, Barbara L.; Gershman, Daniel J.; Ergun, Robert E.; Russell, Christopher T.; Strangeway, Robert J.; Le Contel, Olivier; Pritchard, Kris R.; Marshall, Andrew T.; Hwang, Kyoung-Joo; Dokgo, Kyunghwan; Fuselier, Stephen A.; Chen, Li-Jen; Wang, Shan; Swisdak, Marc; Drake, James F.; Argall, Matthew R.; Trattner, Karlheinz J.; Yamada, Masaaki; Paschmann, Götz (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Electron inflow and outflow velocities during magnetic reconnection at and near the dayside magnetopause are measured using satellites from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. A case study is examined in detail, ...

• Supersymmetric proton decay revisited 

  Ellis, John; Evans, L.; Nagata, Natsumi; Olive, Keith A.; Velasco-Sevilla, Liliana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Encouraged by the advent of a new generation of underground detectors – JUNO, DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande – that are projected to improve significantly on the present sensitivities to various baryon decay modes, we revisit ...

• A new Look at the Electron Diffusion Region in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection 

  Hesse, Michael; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Tenfjord, Paul; James L., Burch; Liu, Yi‐Hsin; Bessho, Naoki; Wang, Shan; Kolstø, Håkon Midthun; Spinnangr, Susanne Flø; Ergun, Robert E; Moretto, Therese; Kwagala, Norah Kaggwa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  A new look at the structure of the electron diffusion region in collision less magnetic reconnection is presented. The research is based on a particle-in-cell simulation of asymmetric magnetic reconnection, which includes ...

• On the Impact of a Streaming Oxygen Population on Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection 

  Kolstø, Håkon Midthun; Hesse, Michael; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Tenfjord, Paul; Spinnangr, Susanne Flø; Kwagala, Norah Kaggwa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Using 2.5-D Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations, we investigate how magnetotail reconnection is affected by a cold, streaming, oxygen plasma population, attributed to an ionospheric source, in the inflow region. As the ...

• Modification of jet substructure in heavy ion collisions as a probe of the resolution length of quark-gluon plasma 

  Casalderrey-Solana, J.; Milhano, G.; Pablos Alfonso, Daniel; Rajagopal, K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  We present an analysis of the role that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) resolution length, the minimal distance by which two nearby colored charges in a jet must be separated such that they engage with the plasma independently, ...

• AME: A Cross-Scale Constellation of CubeSats to Explore Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar–Terrestrial Relation 

  Dai, Lei; Wang, Chi; Cai, Zhiming; Gonzalez, Walter D.; Hesse, Michael; Escoubet, Philippe; Phan, Tai D.; Vasyliunas, Vytenis; Lu, Quanming; Li, Lei; Kong, Linggao; Dunlop, Malcolm W.; Nakamura, Rumi; He, Jianshen; Fu, Huishan; Zhou, M.; Huang, Shiyong; Wang, Rongsheng; Khotyaintsev, Yuri V.; Graham, D. B.; Retinò, Alessandro; Zelenyi, Lev; Grigorenko, Elena E.; Runov, Andrei; Angelopoulos, Vassilis; Kepko, Larry; Hwang, Kyoung-Joo; Zhang, Yongcun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  A major subset of solar–terrestrial relations, responsible, in particular, for the driver of space weather phenomena, is the interaction between the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind. As one of the most important ...

• High-precision limits on W–W′and Z–Z′ mixing from diboson production using the full LHC Run 2 ATLAS data set 

  Pankov, A.A.; Osland, Per; Serenkova, I.A.; Bednyakov, V.A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The full ATLAS Run 2 data set with time-integrated luminosity of 139fb−1 in the diboson channels in hadronic final states is used to probe a simple model with an extended gauge sector (EGM), proposed by Altarelli et al., ...

• Dependence of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings on Internal and External Drivers 

  Salminen, Antti; Asikainen, T.; Maliniemi, Ville Aleksi; Mursula, K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is a large-scale disturbance of the wintertime stratosphere, which occurs especially in the Northern Hemisphere. Earlier studies have shown that SSW occurrence depends on atmospheric ...

• The Mechanism for Improved Polymer Gel Blocking During Low-Salinity Waterfloods, Investigated Using Positron Emission Tomography Imaging 

  Brattekås, Bergit; Seright, Randall S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Polymer gels can be placed in fractures within subsurface reservoirs to improve sweep efficiency during subsequent floods, and its success is largely determined by the gel’s ability to completely occupy the fracture volume. ...

• Hydrate Nucleation, Growth, and Induction 

  Kvamme, Bjørn; Aromada, Solomon Aforkoghene; Saeidi, Navid; Hustache-Marmou, Thomas; Gjerstad, Petter Berge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The first stage of any phase transition is a dynamic coupling of transport processes and thermodynamic changes. The free energy change of the phase transition must be negative and large enough to also overcome the penalty ...

View more