Nonlinear Reconnection in Magnetized Turbulencehttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LGOKIKLoureiro, N.F.; Boldyrev, S.Harvard Dataverse2021-06-272021-06-28T09:10:55ZRecent analytical works on strong magnetized plasma turbulence have hypothesized the existence of a range of scales where the tearing instability may govern the energy cascade. In this paper, we estimate the conditions under which such tearing may give rise to full nonlinear magnetic reconnection in the turbulent eddies. When those conditions are met, a new turbulence regime is accessed where reconnection-driven energy dissipation becomes common, rather than the rare feature that it must be when they are not. We conclude that while such conditions are very stringent for fluid-scale eddies, they are easily met for kinetic-scale eddies; in particular, we suggest that our arguments may help explain recent Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations of (so-called) electron-only reconnection and of energy dissipation via electron Landau damping in the Earthʼs magnetosheath.Physicselectron-only reconnectionenergy cascadefluid-scale eddieskinetic-scale eddiesmagnetized turbulencenonlinear magnetic reconnectionnonlinear reconnectionrare featurerecent analytical worksreconnection-driven energy dissipationstrong magnetized plasma turbulencetearing instabilityturbulence regimeturbulent eddies2021-06-27This dataset is made available without information on how it can be used. You should communicate with the Contact(s) specified before use.