title: Electromagnetic fluctuations during fast reconnection in a laboratory plasma.
abstract: Experimental evidence for a positive correlation is established between the magnitude of electromagnetic fluctuations up to the lower-hybrid frequency range and enhancement of reconnection rates in a well-controlled laboratory plasma. The fluctuations belong to the right-hand polarized whistler wave branch, propagating obliquely to the reconnecting magnetic field, with a phase velocity comparable to the relative drift velocity between electrons and ions. The measured short coherence lengths indicate their strongly nonlinear nature.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA.
authors.forename: Hantao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Terry
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kulsrud
authors.forename: Aleksey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuritsyn
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren