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Article
Particle acceleration in the driven relativistic reconnection
| Authors: |
Lyubarski, Y., Liverts, M. |
| Document Type: |
Article |
| Pubstate: |
Published |
| Journal: |
Astrophysical Journal |
| Volume: |
682
1436-1442 |
| Year: |
2008 |
AbstractWe study compression-driven magnetic reconnection in a relativistic electron-positron plasma. Making use of a 2.5-dimensional particle-in-cell code, we simulated compression of a magnetized plasma layer containing a current sheet within it. We found that the particle spectrum within the reconnecting sheet becomes nonthermal; it can be approximated by a power-law distribution with an index of -1 and an exponential cutoff.
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