Abstract—Structural features of current sheets formed in laboratory experiments in plasma with ions of different mass are compared based on dimensionless parameters and compared with the values of Hall currents.
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Frank, A.G., Satunin, S.N. Some Features of Current Sheets Formed in Plasmas with Ions of Different Mass. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 47, 54–58 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335620020049
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