Electron acceleration and heating in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3554-3560

  Ricci, Paolo ^a   Lapenta, Giovanni ^a,b   Brackbill, J U ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0141835024     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1598207     Document Type: Article

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