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Inertia driven tearing modes in electron-positron plasmas |
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| Authors: | P. K. Shukla S. Jammalamadaka L. Stenflo |
| Affiliation: | (1) Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany;(2) Department of Plasma Physics, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden;(3) Present address: Max-Planck Institut für Aeronomie, D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany |
| Abstract: | It is shown that the particle inertia can cause a tearing instability in an electron-positron collisionless plasma with sheared magnetic fields. An approximate analytical expression for the growth rate is obtained. It characterizes the magnetic reconnection timescale in a magnetized electronpositron plasma. |
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