  Energy dissipation in collisionless plasmas is one of the most outstanding
open questions in plasma physics. Magnetic reconnection and turbulence are two
phenomena that can produce the conditions for energy dissipation. These two
phenomena are closely related to each other in a wide range of plasmas.
Turbulent fluctuations can emerge in critical regions of reconnection events,
and magnetic reconnection can occur as a product of the turbulent cascade. In
this study, we perform 2D particle-in-cell simulations of a reconnecting Harris
current sheet in the presence of turbulent fluctuations to explore the effect
of turbulence on the reconnection process in collisionless non-relativistic
pair-plasmas. We find that the presence of a turbulent field can affect the
onset and evolution of magnetic reconnection. Moreover, we observe the
existence of a scale dependent amplitude of magnetic field fluctuations above
which these fluctuations are able to disrupt the growing of magnetic islands.
These fluctuations provide thermal energy to the particles within the current
sheet and preferential perpendicular thermal energy to the background
population.
