caa a22 4500 445815698 CHVBK 20180317145227.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11214-011-9789-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11214-011-9789-5 Yamada Masaaki Center of Magnetic Self-organization, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, 08543, Princeton, NJ, USA aut Understanding the Dynamics of Magnetic Reconnection Layer [Elektronische Daten] [Masaaki Yamada] We review progress in understanding the dynamics of a typical magnetic reconnection layer by describing the historical development of theory and the recent findings and discoveries in space and laboratory plasmas. The emphasis is on the dynamics of electrons moving with respect to ions in the collision-free neutral sheet. We make a detailed comparison of experimental results from the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX) with those from theory and numerical simulations. The collaboration between space and laboratory scientists on reconnection research has recently reached a point where we can compare measurements of the reconnection layer profile in detail with support from numerical simulations. In spite of the large difference in physical scales by 106-107, we find remarkable commonalities in the features of the magnetic reconnection region in laboratory and magnetospheric plasmas. Anewly planned laboratory experiment, in which a current sheet is swept in the way a magnetosphere current sheet crosses space satellites, is also described. The Author(s), 2011 Magnetic reconnection nationallicence Laboratory astrophysics experiments nationallicence Two fluid physics nationallicence Space Science Reviews Springer Netherlands 160/1-4(2011-10-01), 25-43 0038-6308 160:1-4<25 2011 160 11214 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-011-9789-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-011-9789-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Yamada Masaaki Center of Magnetic Self-organization, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, 08543, Princeton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Space Science Reviews Springer Netherlands 160/1-4(2011-10-01), 25-43 0038-6308 160:1-4<25 2011 160 11214 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer