e-layer

<radiobiology> Cylinder of relativistic electrons gyrating in a magnetic field, which produces a self-field strong enough to dominate the externally applied field and produce a field-reversal (where the B field changes sign) in the system.

See: Field-Reversed Configuration, Field-Reversed Pinch.

(09 Oct 1997)


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