Experimental test of the sweet-parker model of magnetic reconnection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 3256-3259

  Ji, Hantao ^a   Yamada, Masaaki ^a   Hsu, Scott ^a   Kulsrud, Russell ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001024219     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3256     Document Type: Article

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