• 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, ...

• 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, ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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., ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Explicit tracking of CO2-flow at the core scale using micro-Positron Emission Tomography (μPET) 

  Brattekås, Bergit; Haugen, Malin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Safe subsurface sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is becoming increasingly important to meet climate goals and curb atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The world-wide CO2 storage capacity in carbonate formations is ...

• Implications of symmetries in the scalar sector 

  Haber, Howard E.; Øgreid, Odd Magne; Osland, Per; Rebelo, Margarida N. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Symmetries play a very important rôle in Particle Physics. In extended scalar sectors, the existence of symmetries may permit the models to comply with the experimental constraints in a natural way, and at the same time ...

• A study of Λ and ¯Λ polarization splitting by meson field in PICR hydrodynamic model 

  Xie, Yilong; Chen, Gang; Csernai, László Pál (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  With the PICR hydrodynamic model, we study the polarization splitting between Λ and Λ¯ at RHIC BES energy range, based on the meson field mechanism. Our results fit to the experimental data fairly well. Besides, two ...

• Electron Bernstein waves driven by electron crescents near the electron diffusion region 

  Li, Wenya; Graham, D. B.; Khotyaintsev, Yuri V.; Vaivads, Andris; André, Mats; Min, K.; Liu, K.; Tang, B.B.; Wang, C.; Fujimoto, K.; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Toledo-Redondo, Sergio; Lindqvist, Per-Arne; Ergun, R.E.; Torbert, Roy B.; Rager, A.C.; Dorelli, J.C.; Gershman, D.J.; Giles, B. L.; Lavraud, B.; Plaschke, F.; Magnes, W.; Le Contel, Olivier; Russell, Christopher T.; Burch, J. L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft encounter an electron diffusion region (EDR) of asymmetric magnetic reconnection at Earth’s magnetopause. The EDR is characterized by agyrotropic electron velocity distributions ...

• Universality of Lower Hybrid Waves at Earth's Magnetopause 

  Graham, D. B.; Khotyaintsev, Yu V; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Vaivads, Andris; Andre, M.; Drake, J. F.; Egedal, J.; Zhou, M.; Le Contel, O; Webster, J.M.; Lavraud, B.; Kacem, Imed; Génot, V.; Jacquey, C.; Rager, AC; Gershman, Daniel J; Burch, J. L.; Ergun, Robert E (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  Waves around the lower hybrid frequency are frequently observed at Earth's magnetopause and readily reach very large amplitudes. Determining the properties of lower hybrid waves is crucial because they are thought to ...

• Microdosimetry with a 3D silicon on insulator (SOI) detector in a low energy proton beamline 

  Samnøy, Andreas Tefre; Ytre-Hauge, Kristian; Malinen, Eirik; Tran, Linh; Rosenfeld, Anatoly; Povoli, Marco; Kok, Angela Chun Ying; Summanwar, Anand; Røhrich, Dieter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  An accurate description of the radiation quality of proton beams is a precondition to increase our understanding of radiobiological mechanisms and to develop accurate biological response models for radiotherapy. However, ...

• Interaction of Cold Streaming Protons with the Reconnection Process 

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

  We employ a 2.5D particle-in-cell simulation to study a scenario where the reconnection process captures cold streaming protons. As soon as the tailward streaming protons become involved, they contribute to the overall ...

• Variation in relative biological effectiveness for cognitive structures in proton therapy of pediatric brain tumors 

  Otterlei, Ole Marius; Indelicato, Daniel J.; Toussaint, Laura; Ytre-Hauge, Kristian; Pilskog, Sara; Fjæra, Lars Fredrik; Rørvik, Eivind; Pettersen, Helge Egil Seime; Muren, Ludvig Paul; Lassen-Ramshad, Yasmin; Di Pinto, Marcos; Stokkevåg, Camilla Hanquist (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Background Clinically, a constant value of 1.1 is used for the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of protons, whereas in vitro the RBE has been shown to vary depending on physical dose, tissue type, and linear energy ...

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