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A Modern Synthesis of Theory, Experiment, and Observations
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Concept of magnetic reconnection and its development -- 1.2 Recent development and progress of understanding magnetic reconnection -- 1.3 Major questions -- 2. Magnetic reconnection observed in space and laboratory plasmas -- 2.1 Magnetic reconnection in solar flares -- 2.2 Magnetic reconnection in the magnetosphere -- 2.3 Magnetic reconnection in self-organization in fusion plasmas -- 2.4 An observation of a prototypical reconnection layer in a laboratory experiment
3. Development of MHD theories for magnetic reconnection, and key observations in laboratory and space plasmas -- 3.1 Early history of MHD theory on magnetic reconnection -- 3.2 Description of plasma fluid in magnetic fields by MHD -- 3.3 The flux freezing principle and maintaining plasma equilibrium -- 3.4 Breakdown of flux freezing and magnetic reconnection -- 3.5 Resistive MHD theories and magnetic reconnection -- 3.6 Experimental analysis of the magnetic reconnection layer based on MHD models
4. Kinetic description of the reconnection layer: One-dimensional Harris equilibrium and an experimental study -- 4.1 One-dimensional Harris formulation and solutions -- 4.2 Theory of the generalized Harris sheet -- 4.3 Experimental investigation of the Harris sheet -- 4.4 Additional comments and discussion -- 5. Development of two-fluid theory for reconnection coordinated with key observations -- 5.1 Reconnection in the magnetosphere and two-fluid dynamics -- 5.2 Relationship between the two-fluid formulation and MHD -- 5.3 Development of particle-in-cell simulations
5.4 Results from two-dimensional numerical simulations for collisionless reconnection -- 5.5 Profile and characteristics of the two-fluid reconnection layer -- 5.6 Experimental observations of two-fluid effects in the reconnection layer -- 5.7 Observation of a two-scale reconnection layer with identification of the electron diffusion layer in a laboratory plasma -- 5.8 Waves in the reconnection layer and enhanced resistivity -- 6. Laboratory plasma experiments dedicated to the study of magnetic reconnection -- 6.1 Early laboratory experiments on reconnection
6.2 Experiments of toroidal plasma merging -- 6.3 Controlled driven reconnection experiments -- 6.4 Main facilities dedicated to reconnection study -- 7. Recent observations of magnetic reconnection in solar and astrophysical plasmas -- 7.1 Features of magnetic reconnection in solar flare eruptions -- 7.2 Development of the standard solar flare model and magnetic reconnection -- 7.3 Breakout model with a multipolar magnetic configuration -- 7.4 Magnetic reconnection occurs impulsively -- 7.5 A model of magnetic reconnection in the Crab Nebula
7.6 Notes on fast collisionless reconnection in space astrophysical plasmas.
Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2022