Measurement of the current sheet during magnetic reconnection in a toroidal plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Crocker, N A ^a   Fiksel, G ^a   Prager, S C ^a   Sarff, J S ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PINCH EFFECT; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MAGNETIC-FIELD FLUCTUATION; MAGNETICALLY CONFINED PLASMA; REVERSED PINCH PLASMA; TOROIDAL PLASMA;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 0037462974     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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