OBSERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF MAGNETIC-FIELD-LINE RECONNECTION AND TEARING IN A THETA-PINCH

被引：46
作者：
IRBY, JH
DRAKE, JF
GRIEM, HR
机构：
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
来源：
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 1979年 / 42卷 / 04期
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D O I：
10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.228
中图分类号：
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号：
0702 ;
摘要：
Measurements and calculations are presented of reconnection and tearing of magnetic fields in a theta pinch operated with initial bias and driving fields in opposite directions. Open magnetic field lines reconnect and form magnetic islands on time scales of the order of an Alfvén transit time across the plasma sheath. Implications of these results for plasma confinement are discussed. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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页码：228 / 231
页数：4
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