Experimental Verification of the Hall Effect during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
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.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 840915
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-4081; TRN: US0502286
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 16 Jun 2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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