Local measurements of tearing mode flows and the magnetohydrodynamic dynamo in the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed-field pinch
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dynamo in the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed-field pinch D. A. Ennis, D. Craig, S. Gangadhara, J. K. Anderson, D. J. Den Hartog, F. Ebrahimi, G. Fiksel, and S. C. Prager The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1390, USA Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1390, USA Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois 60187-5501, USA
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