Identification of Y-Shaped and O-Shaped Diffusion Regions During Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 3117-3120

  Yamada, Masaaki ^a   Ji, Hantao ^a   Hsu, Scott ^a   Carter, Troy ^a   Kulsrud, Russell ^a   Ono, Yasushi ^a   Perkins, Francis ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000496349     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.3117     Document Type: Article

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