Experimental investigation of the neutral sheet profile during magnetic reconnection

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 7, Issue 5 II, 2000, Pages 1781-1787

  Yamada, Masaaki ^a   Ji, Hantao ^a   Hsu, Scott ^a   Carter, Troy ^a   Kulsrud, Russell ^a   Trintchouk, Fedor ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000147443     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873999     Document Type: Article

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