[1] We present a novel technique that exploits multiple spacecraft data to determine the impact parameters of the most general form of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause. The method consists of a superposed epoch of multiple spacecraft magnetometer measurements that yields the instantaneous magnetic spatial gradients near a magnetopause reconnection site. The gradients establish the inst...

Extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) observations of an emerging active region are used to study separator reconnection in the corona. We identify each EUV loop connecting the emerging polarity to a nearby existing active region over the 41 hr period beginning at emergence onset. Their geometrical resemblance to post-reconnection field lines from a magnetic model of the active region pair implicates separ...

We report on studies of Bose-Einstein correlations and color reconnection in hadronic W pair production at LEP. Bose-Einstein correlations between identical particles from the decay of different W's are studied by comparing the particle correlation in hadronic W pair decays to those in events which are constructed from the combination of the hadronic parts of two events where one of the Ws deca...

The high-power heating of magnetic reconnection has been applied to the ultra-high-beta ST formation in the TS-3, TS-4 and UTST merging experiments. Two low-beta ST plasmas were formed inductively by two or four PF coils without using any central solenoid (CS) and were merged for high power MW-GW reconnection heating. Cause and mechanism for the reconnection heating were directly measured for t...

Magnetic reconnection is a topological rearrangement of magnetic field that occurs on time scales much faster than the global magnetic diffusion time. Since the field lines break on microscopic scales but energy is stored and the field is driven on macroscopic scales, reconnection is an inherently multi-scale process that often involves both magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and kinetic phenomena. In t...

Two dimensional (2-D) images of electron temperature fluctuations with high temporal and spatial resolution were employed to study the sawtooth oscillation in TEXTOR tokamak plasmas. The new findings are: 1) 2-D images revealed that the reconnection is localized and permitted the determination of the physical dimensions of the reconnection zone in the poloidal and toroidal planes. 2) The combin...

Many extended extragalactic radio sources require a local in situ acceleration mechanism for electrons, in part because the synchrotron lifetimes are shorter than the bulk travel time across the emitting regions. If the magnetic field in these sources is localized in flux tubes, reconnection may occur between regions of plasma β (ratio of particle to magnetic pressure) << 1, even though β avera...

Pulmonary vein (PV) reconnection is a major limitation of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation and is a significant contributor for arrhythmia recurrence, particularly in patients with paroxysmal AF. Recent technological advances, including the use of steerable sheaths and force sensing catheters resulted in reduced incidence of PV reconnection; however its incidence remains unacceptably high. Add...

In this paper two theoretical approaches for the calculation of the rate of quasi-stationary, twodimensional magnetic reconnection with nonuniform anomalous resistivity are considered in the framework of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In the first, “global” equations approach the MHD equations are approximately solved for a whole reconnection layer, including the upstream and downst...

Systematic analysis of numerical simulations of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence reveals the presence of a large number of X-type neutral points where magnetic reconnection occurs. We examine the statistical properties of this ensemble of reconnection events that are spontaneously generated by turbulence. The associated reconnection rates are distributed over a wide range of value...