Particle Acceleration in a 3D Reconnecting Current Sheet with the Polarization Electric Field

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May 2008

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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SH51C-03

Physics

2451 Particle Acceleration, 7807 Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration

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Particle acceleration is investigated in a 3D magnetic field topology with a guiding field corresponding to reconnecting current sheets with different compressibility. The solutions are compared from solving 3D motion equation in the test particle and particle-in-cell approaches. Three types of electric fields are considered: a drifted one brought by the VxB force, the polarization one caused by a difference in gyroradii of protons and electrons and the turbulent one appeared from waves induced by accelerated electron beams. The effect of magnetic and electric field magnitudes, the component ratios and a size of the reconnection region on particle energy distributions is investigated for protons and electrons.

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