Magnetic Field-Line Reconnection in a Toroidal Plasma
Abstract
The magnetic field-line reconnection is investigated in detail by rapidly reversing the toroidal current in a torus plasma. The reconnection brings about an explosive increase in the plasma pressure in a quite narrow region where a shocklike structure is observed. A strong plasma acceleration and an anomalous resistivity due to the reconnection are estimated by the magnetohydrodynamics equations with the variables obtained from the experiment.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.918
- Bibcode:
- 1984PhRvL..53..918I
- Keywords:
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- Current Density;
- Lines Of Force;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Plasma Currents;
- Toroidal Plasmas;
- Electrical Resistivity;
- Magnetic Flux;
- Plasma Acceleration;
- Plasma Heating;
- Plasma Pressure;
- Solar Flares;
- Plasma Physics;
- 52.35.Mw;
- 52.25.Fi;
- 52.30.+r;
- Nonlinear phenomena: waves wave propagation and other interactions;
- Transport properties