Experimental Test of the Sweet-Parker Model of Magnetic Reconnection

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Apr 1998

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 80, Issue 15, April 13, 1998, pp.3256-3259

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We report a quantitative experimental test of the Sweet-Parker model of magnetic reconnection in a controlled laboratory plasma. It is found that the observed reconnection rate can be explained by a generalized Sweet-Parker model which incorporates compressibility, downstream pressure, and the effective resistivity. The latter is significantly enhanced over its classical values in the collisionless limit.

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