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Magnetic reconnection with Sweet-Parker characteristics in two-dimensional laboratory plasmas
1999
Physics of Plasmas
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Magnetic reconnection has been studied experimentally in a well-controlled, two-dimensional laboratory magnetohydrodynamic plasma. The observations are found to be both qualitatively and quantitatively consistent with 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. This generalized Sweet-Parker model also applies to the case in which
doi:10.1063/1.873432
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