Experimental Verification of the Hall Effect during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
- 29 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 95 (5), 055003
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.055003
Abstract
In this Letter we report a clear and unambiguous observation of the out-of-plane quadrupole magnetic field suggested by numerical simulations in the reconnecting current sheet in the magnetic reconnection experiment. Measurements show that the Hall effect is large in the collisionless regime and becomes small as the collisionality increases, indicating that the Hall effect plays an important role in collisionless reconnection.Keywords
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