Experimental investigation of three-component magnetic reconnection by use of merging spheromaks and tokamaks

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1953-1963

  Ono, Y ^a   Inomoto, M ^a   Okazaki, T ^a   Ueda, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

BETA RATIO; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; ION TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMA SHEET; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024806040     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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