SIXTH RHESSI WORKSHOP
Paris, France
April 4-8, 2006

Group 5: Theoretical Implications

Group Leader:
Loukas Vlahos ( vlahos@astro.auth.gr)


Registered Members


Sumarry
Group 5 will focus on the constrains put forward by the analysis of the RHESSI data to the models for particle acceleration. The second goal of this group is to correlate the existing MHD models for Flares and CMEs with the kinetic aspects of particle acceleration and propagation.


Wednesday, April 5

0:900-10:30 Plenary Session
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-13:00
Discussion on the goals of the group (L. Vlahos)
What can we tell the theorists? (G. Emslie)

On the Relation of the Coronal Source and the Footpoints (A. Benz)
 
2D electron spectroscopy on solar flares (E. Kontar)

13:00-14:30
Lunch
14:30-18:00



Thursday, April 6


9:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-13:00
Electron acceleration at the reconnection outflow shock
by Mann, Warmuth, and Aurass

Electron acceleration at DC electric fields in the corona
by Oenel and Mann
13:00-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:00
The effect of tangential and guiding fields on particle acceleration in a 3D reconnecting current sheet  (by Valentina Zharkova)
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:00
Common session with WG 4 and 3: (i) tight correlation between spectral hardness and total flux(ii) the 'challenge' of the high electron fluxes implied by HXR intensities and the small footpoint sizes; implications for beam physics, return currents, electron number flux and resupply etc.



Friday, April  7

9:00-10:300
Discussion special aspects on Magnetic topology, reconnection and acceleration and the predictions from theory (by Pascal Demoulin)
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-13:00
Common session with WG-2: Constrains on theories of particle acceleration from  Ion acceleration and Interaction
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Common session with WG-1: observational and theoretical constraints on particle acceleration mechanisms
16:00-16:30
Coffee
Plenary session  Saturday April 8
Summary (by L. Vlahos)