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This study investigates the saturation of collisionless tearing modes in plasmas, focusing on the effects of guide fields. The findings reveal that in the absence of a guide field, electron behavior becomes nongyrotropic, leading to two competing saturation mechanisms, while in the presence of a guide field, saturation is dominated by electron trapping. Overall, the saturation amplitudes observed are significantly smaller than those required for relevance to reconnection processes in the magnetosphere.

Author
shashwatkapri
Language
EN