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Experimental Verification of the Hall Effect during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

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In this letter we report a clear and unambiguous observation of the out-of-plane quadrupole magnetic field suggested by numerical simulations in the reconnecting current sheet in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX). Measurements show that the Hall effect is large in collisionless regime and becomes small as the collisionality increases, indicating that the Hall effect plays an important role in collisionless reconnection

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Available from INIS in electronic form; Also available from OSTI as DE00840915; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/840915-oSKjp9/native/

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URL
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/840915-oSKjp9/native/;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
13 p.
Report number
PPPL--4081

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
36087835
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; PLASMA; QUADRUPOLES; VERIFICATION
Descriptors DEC
MULTIPOLES

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Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-76CH03073
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States); USDOE Office of Science (Seychelles) (US)