Cause of sudden magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Choi, S ^a   Craig, D ^a   Ebrahimi, F ^a   Prager, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC MAGNETIC FIELD; EDGE TEARING MODES; FIELD PINCH PLASMAS;

DAMPING; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PLASMAS; STABILITY;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 33645786248     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.145004     Document Type: Article

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