Electromagnetic Fluctuations during Fast Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Ji, Hantao ^a   Terry, Stephen ^a   Yamada, Masaaki ^a   Kulsrud, Russell ^a   Kuritsyn, Aleksey ^a   Ren, Yang ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ASTROPHYSICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROSTATICS; FREE ENERGY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LABORATORY PLASMA; MAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION EXPERIMENT (MRX); MAGNETIC TOPOLOGY; SOLAR FLARES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 2342531036     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.115001     Document Type: Article

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