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Kuritsyn, A.; Ji, H.; Gerhardt, S.P.; Ren, Y.; Yamada, M.
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., Princeton, NJ (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Science (United States)2007
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., Princeton, NJ (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Science (United States)2007
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[en] The magnetic reconnection process is studied in a wide range of operating conditions in the well-controlled Magnetic Reconnection Experiment. The reconnection rate is observed to be a function of both global (i.e., system size) and local (collisionality) plasma parameters. When only local collisionality is lowered, the current sheet is shortened while effective resistivity is enhanced, both accelerating reconnection rates. At a fixed collisionality, the current sheet length increases with system size, resulting in the reduction of the reconnection rate. These results quantitatively agree with a generalized Sweet-Parker analysis.
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24 Jul 2007; 20 p; ACO2-76CHO3073; Also available from OSTI as DE00962701; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/962701-jeTQ1V/; doi 10.2172/962701
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