Three-dimensional structure of magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma

Details Three-dimensional structure of magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma Three-dimensional structure of magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma

Mar 2003

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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 5, pp. 17-1, CiteID 1213, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016497

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Optics

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Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection, Space Plasma Physics: Laboratory Studies, Electromagnetics: Optics

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The local three-dimensional structure of magnetic reconnection has been measured for the first time in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) laboratory plasma at the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment. An array of 600 magnetic probes which resolve ion inertial length and MHD time scale dynamics on a single shot basis measured the magnetic structure of partial spheromak merging events. Counter-helicity spheromaks merge rapidly, and reconnection activity clearly self-generates a local component of B which breaks the standard 2D symmetry at the ion inertial scale. Consistent with prior results, no reconnection is observed for co-helicity merging.

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