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Formation and Structure of a Current Sheet in Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/LS7QMZ |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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2019-01-10 |
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J. D. Hare, S. V. Lebedev, L. G. Suttle, N. F. Loureiro, A. Ciardi, G. C. Burdiak, J. P. Chittenden, T. Clayson, S. J. Eardley, C. Garcia, J. W. D. Halliday, N. Niasse, T. Robinson, R. A. Smith, N. Stuart, F. Suzuki-Vidal, G. F. Swadling, J. Ma, J. Wu, 2019, "Formation and Structure of a Current Sheet in Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LS7QMZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Formation and Structure of a Current Sheet in Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/LS7QMZ |
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Authoring Entity: |
J. D. Hare, S. V. Lebedev, L. G. Suttle, N. F. Loureiro, A. Ciardi, G. C. Burdiak, J. P. Chittenden, T. Clayson, S. J. Eardley, C. Garcia, J. W. D. Halliday, N. Niasse, T. Robinson, R. A. Smith, N. Stuart, F. Suzuki-Vidal, G. F. Swadling, J. Ma, J. Wu |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LS7QMZ |
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Physics, experiments, magnetic reconection, plasmoids, semi-collisional plasma dynamics, Z-pinches |
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Abstract: |
We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-power driven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic but sub-Alfvenic. The intrinsically magnetised plasma flows are long lasting, producing a well-defined reconnection layer that persists over many hydrodynamic time scales. The layer is diagnosed using a suite of high resolution laser based diagnostics which provide measurements of the electron density, reconnecting magnetic field, inflow and outflow velocities and the electron and ion temperatures. Using these measurements we observe a balance between the power flow into and out of the layer, and we find that the heating rates for the electrons and ions are significantly in excess of the classical predictions. The formation of plasmoids is observed in laser interferometry and optical self-emission, and the magnetic O-point structure of these plasmoids is confrmed using magnetic probes. |
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<a href="http://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/reports/2010/17ja/17ja021/abstract.php">PSFC REPORT PSFC/JA-17-21</a><br /><br />This work was supported in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grant No. EP/N013379/1, and by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Awards No. DE-F03-02NA00057 and No. DE-SC-0001063. AC was supported by LABEX Plas@Par with French state funds managed by the ANR within the Investissements d'Avenir programme under reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02. NFL was supported by the NSF-DOE partnership in basic plasma science and engineering, award no. DE-SC0016215 |
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This dataset is made available without information on how it can be used. You should communicate with the Contact(s) specified before use. |
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17ja021_archival_manuscript.pdf |
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