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Cothran et al. 2005
Cothran, C.D., Landreman, M., Brown, M.R. and Matthaeus, W.H. (2005). Generalized Ohm's law in a 3-D reconnection experiment. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL021245. issn: 0094-8276.

We report the measurement of non-ideal terms of the generalized Ohm's law at a reconnection site of a weakly collisional laboratory magnetohydrodynamic plasma. Results show that the Hall term dominates the measured terms; resistive and electron inertia terms are small. We suggest that electron pressure (not measured) supports the observed quasistatic reconnection rate, and that anomalous resistivity, while not ruled out, is not required to account for the results.

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Electric fields, Space Plasma Physics, Magnetic reconnection (2723, 7526), Space Plasma Physics, Laboratory studies and experimental techniques
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Geophysical Research Letters
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