Effects of global boundary and local collisionality on magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Kuritsyn, A ^a,b   Ji, H ^a   Gerhardt, S P ^a   Ren, Y ^a   Yamada, M ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPLASMA; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOLAR WIND;

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION PROCESS; SWEET-PARKER ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICS;

COLLISION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PLASMA;

EID: 35948937584     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030796     Document Type: Article

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