Jain, N.; Muñoz, P. A.; Farzalipour Tabriz, M.; Ramp, M.; Büchner, J.: Importance of accurate consideration of the electron inertia in hybrid-kinetic simulations of collisionless plasma turbulence: The 2D limit. Physics of Plasmas 29, p. 053902 (2022)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Jain, N.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: A new hybrid code (CHIEF) implementing the inertial electron fluid equation without approximation. Computer Physics Communications 224, pp. 245 - 264 (2018)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.: Spreading of electron scale magnetic reconnection with a wave number dependent speed due to the propagation of dispersive waves. Physics of Plasmas 24 (8), 082304 (2017)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.; Muñoz, P. A.: Nonlinear evolution of electron shear flow instabilities in the presence of an external guide magnetic field. Physics of Plasmas 24 (3), 032303 (2017)
Jain, N.; von Stechow, A.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Grulke, O.; Klinger, T.: Electron-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of electron scale current sheet dynamics in the VINETA. II guide field reconnection experiment. Physics of Plasmas 24 (9), 092312 (2017)
Jain, N.; Antonsen Jr., T. M.; Palastro, J. P.: Positron Acceleration by Plasma Wakefields Driven by a Hollow Electron Beam. Physical Review Letters 115 (19), 195001 (2015)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.: Effect of guide field on three-dimensional electron shear flow instabilities in electron current sheets. Journal of Plasma Physics 81, 905810606 (2015)
Jain, N.; Palastro, J.; Antonsen Jr., T. M.; Mori, W. B.; An, W.: Plasma wakefield acceleration studies using the quasi-static code WAKE. Physics of Plasmas 22 (2), 023103 (2015)
Jain, N.; Sharma, A. S.: Electron-scale nested quadrupole Hall field in Cluster observations of magnetic reconnection. Annales Geophysicae 33 (6), pp. 719 - 724 (2015)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.: Three dimensional instabilities of an electron scale current sheet in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas 21 (6), 062116 (2014)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.: Nonlinear evolution of three-dimensional instabilities of thin and thick electron scale current sheets: Plasmoid formation and current filamentation. Physics of Plasmas 21 (7), 072306 (2014)
Büchner, J.; Kilian, P.; Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Spanier, F.; Widmer, F.; Zhou, X.; Jain, N.: Kinetic Simulations of Electron Acceleration at Mercury. In: Magnetic Fields in the Solar System: Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions, pp. 201 - 240 (Eds. Lühr, H.; Wicht, J.; Gilder, S. A.; Holschneider, M.). Springer, Cham (2018)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.: Electron shear flow instabilities and electromagnetic fluctuations in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Max Planck Princeton Center for Plasma Physics (MPPC) , Göttingen, Germany (2015)
Analyzing the high spatial resolution solar Ca II H and K emission data obtained by the SUNRISE mission and building a model of other stars more active than the Sun
The Planetary Plasma Environments group (PPE) has a strong heritage in the exploration of planetary magnetospheres and space plasma interactions throughout the solar system. It has contributed instruments to several past missions that flew-by or orbited Jupiter (Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses). The PPE participates in the JUICE mission by contributing hardware and scientific expertise to the Particle Environment Package (PEP).
The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere exceeds the geomagnetic field strength by four orders of magnitude. It greatly influences the processes of energy transport within the solar atmosphere, and dominates the morphology of the solar chromosphere and corona. Kinetic energy from convective motions in the Sun can be efficiently stored in magnetic fields and subsequently released - to heat the solar corona to several million degrees or to blast off coronal mass ejections.