Collisionless reconnection in an electron-positron plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2005, Pages

  Bessho, N ^a   Bhattacharjee, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONLESS RECONNECTION; OFF-DIAGONAL COMPONENTS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRONS; HALL EFFECT; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; POSITRONS; TENSORS;

PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

EID: 28844465053     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.245001     Document Type: Article

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