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In plasma physics, a tearing mode is a plasma instability characterized by field line reconnection and the formation of magnetic islands.[1][2] With islands emerging in the plasma, particles and heat can move from regions that were originally disconnected. Pressure and current density profiles are flattened, causing disruptions.[3] The typical timescale for the growth of a tearing mode the order of 10−1 microsec.[4][5][6]
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Types of Tearing mode
- Rayleigh–Taylor instability
- Magnetic reconnection
- Ballooning instability
- Resistive ballooning mode
- Universal instability
- Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
- Disruption instability [7]
- Edge-localized mode
- Transport barrier mode
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