Experimental study of two-fluid effects on magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma with variable collisionality

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Yamada, Masaaki ^a   Ren, Yang ^a   Ji, Hantao ^a   Breslau, Joshua ^a   Gerhardt, Stefan ^a   Kulsrud, Russell ^a   Kuritsyn, Aleksey ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; QUADRUPOLE COMPONENTS; TWO-FLUID EFFECTS;

ELECTRONS; HALL EFFECT; LAMINAR FLOW; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA WAVES;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 33744779942     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2203950     Document Type: Article

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