Magnetic reconnection with Sweet-Parker characteristics in two-dimensional laboratory plasmas

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 5 I, 1999, Pages 1743-1750

  Ji, Hantao ^a   Yamada, Masaaki ^a   Hsu, Scott ^a   Kulsrud, Russell ^a   Carter, Troy ^a   Zaharia, Sorin ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000451211     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873432     Document Type: Article

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