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Article number | 092701 |
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 09/2008 |
<mark>Journal</mark> | Physics of Plasmas |
Issue number | 9 |
Volume | 15 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Measurements of the bidirectional plasma jets that form at the surface of a solid target during a laser-generated driven magnetic reconnection are presented. Resistivity enhancement of at least 25 x the classical Spitzer value is required when applying the Sweet-Parker model of reconnection to reconcile the experimentally observed reconnection time scale. Analytic calculations show that a fast reconnection model, which includes a priori the effects of microturbulent resistivity enhancement, better reproduces the experimental observations. (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics.