title: Experimental observation of anisotropic magnetic turbulence in a reversed field pinch plasma.
abstract: In this Letter we report an experimental study of fully developed anisotropic magnetic turbulence in a laboratory plasma. The turbulence has broad (narrow) spectral power in the perpendicular (parallel) direction to the local mean magnetic field extending beyond the ion cyclotron frequency. Its k[see symbol] spectrum is asymmetric in the ion and electron diamagnetic directions. The wave number scaling for the short wavelength fluctuations shows exponential falloff indicative of dissipation. A standing wave structure is found for the turbulence in the minor radial direction of the toroidal plasma.
authors.affiliation: Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Almagri
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fiksel
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Prager
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Sarff
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Terry