Experimental Test of the Sweet-Parker Model of Magnetic Reconnection | Zendy

Hantao Ji | Zendy; Masaaki Yamada | Zendy; Scott Hsu | Zendy; Russell M. Kulsrud | Zendy

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Experimental Test of the Sweet-Parker Model of Magnetic Reconnection

Author(s) -

Hantao Ji,

Masaaki Yamada,

Scott Hsu,

Russell M. Kulsrud

Publication year - 1997

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/293435

Subject(s) - magnetic reconnection , physics , compressibility , limit (mathematics) , plasma , electrical resistivity and conductivity , statistical physics , mechanics , condensed matter physics , nuclear physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , mathematical analysis

We report a quantitative experimental test of the Sweet-Parker model of magnetic reconnection in a controlled laboratory plasma. It is found that the observed reconnection rate cannot be explained by the Sweet-Parker model unless the model is generalized to incorporate compressibility, downstream pressure, and the effective resistivity. The latter is significantly enhanced over its classical values in the collisionless limit

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