Review of controlled laboratory experiments on physics of magnetic reconnection

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A7, 1999, Pages 14529-14541

  Yamada, Masaaki ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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