Possible scenarios of coronal loops reconnection/heating processes to be observed at high spatial resolution

Recent improvements in interferometric techniques could allow to achieve 0.01 arcsec angular resolution on the Sun, i.e. 10 km. Such a high resolution is of direct interest to understand the coronal loop structure since current observations at low resolution cannot distinguish between major dissipation/heating theories which all involve very small scale dissipating processes. Three simplified scenarios of loop instabilities are investigated in this paper and the resulting fine structure and contrast that they might induce on observable quantities (temperature, density) are deduced.