scholarly journals Particle acceleration during magnetic reconnection in a low-beta pair plasma

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 055708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Guo ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
William Daughton ◽  
Xiaocan Li ◽  
Yi-Hsin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Pair Plasma

scholarly journals Studying particle acceleration from driven magnetic reconnection at the termination shock of a relativistic striped wind using particle-in-cell simulations

2020 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 07003
Author(s):  
Yingchao Lu ◽  
Fan Guo ◽  
Patrick Kilian ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
Chengkun Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Magnetic Energy ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Termination Shock ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Poynting Flux ◽  
Electrons And Positrons ◽  
Particle Kinetic Energy ◽  
Fermi Type

A rotating pulsar creates a surrounding pulsar wind nebula (PWN) by steadily releasing an energetic wind into the interior of the expanding shockwave of supernova remnant or interstellar medium. At the termination shock of a PWN, the Poynting-flux- dominated relativistic striped wind is compressed. Magnetic reconnection is driven by the compression and converts magnetic energy into particle kinetic energy and accelerating particles to high energies. We carrying out particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to study the shock structure as well as the energy conversion and particle acceleration mechanism. By analyzing particle trajectories, we find that many particles are accelerated by Fermi-type mechanism. The maximum energy for electrons and positrons can reach hundreds of TeV.

scholarly journals Fast magnetic reconnection and energetic particle acceleration

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 537-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Lazarian ◽  
G. Kowal ◽  
E. Vishniac ◽  
E. de Gouveia Dal Pino
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Energetic Particle ◽  
Energetic Particle Acceleration
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