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arxiv: 0805.0085 · v2 · submitted 2008-05-01 · 🌌 astro-ph

Particle acceleration in the driven relativistic reconnection

Yuri Lyubarsky , Michael Liverts This is my paper
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keywords compressiondrivenparticleplasmareconnectionrelativisticsheetacceleration
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We study the compression driven magnetic reconnection in the relativistic electron-positron plasma. Making use of a 2.5D 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 non-thermal; it could be approximated by a power-law distribution with an index of -1 and an exponential cutoff.

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