Fast reconnection in relativistic pair plasmas: Analysis of particle acceleration in self-consistent full particle simulations

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1151-1163

  Jaroschek, C H ^a,c   Treumann, R A ^b   Lesch, H ^a   Scholer, M ^a,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b Universitatssternwarte der L   (Germany)

^c Ctr for Interdisc Plasma Science   (Germany)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SHEET STABILITY; FAST MAGNETIC RECONNECTION (FMR); PARTICLE ACCELERATION; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) CODES;

ACCELERATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA STABILITY; POISSON EQUATION; TOPOLOGY;

PLASMAS;

EID: 2142827203     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1644814     Document Type: Article

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