Published July 29, 2005
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Journal article
Experimental Verification of the Hall Effect during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
Creators
- 1. Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 (United States)
Description
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. Measurements show that the Hall effect is large in the collisionless regime and becomes small as the collisionality increases, indicating that the Hall effect plays an important role in collisionless reconnection
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 95
- Journal Issue
- 5
- Journal Page Range
- p. 055003-055003.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37015266
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA SIMULATION; QUADRUPOLES; VERIFICATION
- Descriptors DEC
- FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICS; MULTIPOLES; SIMULATION
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2005 The American Physical Society