PPPL physicist uncovers clues to mechanism behind magnetic reconnection

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Jan 23, 2017, 4:02 pm53 pts
Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published a paper showing that magnetic reconnection — the process in which magnetic field lines snap together and release energy — can be triggered by motion in nearby magnetic fields. By…

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