Electron distribution functions in a current sheet
Abstract
Using a novel directional velocity analyzer the electron distribution function f(v,r,t) is measured in a magnetic-field-line reconnection experiment. Runaway electrons are observed inside the current sheet, a result important for transport processes and instabilities.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- July 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.864343
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhFl...26.1949S
- Keywords:
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- Current Sheets;
- Electron Distribution;
- Electron Runaway (Plasma Physics);
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Distribution Functions;
- Electrostatic Probes;
- Plasma Physics