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Quadrupolar density structures in driven magnetic reconnection experiments with a guide field

Graduate students Joe Chen works with professor Ryan McBride at the 200-kV, 1-MA, 100-ns MAIZE facility at the Plasma

This photo and caption was originally published in Michigan News on June 20, 2023 and is reprinted with permission.  K. McAlpine, "$27M for laboratory astrophysics and nuclear fusion, led by U-M," Michigan News, June 20, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://news.umich.edu/27m-for-laboratory-astrophysics-and-nuclear-fusion-led-by-u-m/.  Photo taken from T. W. O. Varnish, et al., doi: 10.1063/5.0251581. 

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The results were recently published in Physics of Plasmas: T. W. O. Varnish, et al., “Quadrupolar Density Structures in Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments with a Guide Field,” Phys. Plasmas 32, 022118, February, 2025, doi: 10.1063/5.0251581.

 

Prof. Jack Hare and his team from MIT and Cornell recently used UM’s MAIZE facility to study magnetic reconnection with a guide field. The results were recently published in Physics of Plasmas: T. W. O. Varnish, J. Chen, S. Chowdhry, R. Datta, G. V. Dowhan, L. S. Horan IV, N. M. Jordan, E. R. Neill, A. P. Shah, R. Shapovalov, B. J. Sporer, R. D. McBride, and J. D. Hare, “Quadrupolar Density Structures in Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments with a Guide Field”, Phys. Plasmas 32, 022118 (2025);

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0251581

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