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Observational features concerning solar energetic particles are compactly reviewed with some emphasis on the spectra and time histories. Velocity dependent characteristics in the energy spectra are pointed out, and compared to the results of the interplanetary shocks. A shock drift acceleration is introduced in order to interpret the observational features, especially a very fast acceleration to MeV energies within an order of second. There is a strong evidence of the shock drift acceleration in the interplanetary shocks. When some conditions are satisfied in the corona, only one or several encounters of particles with a near perpendicular shock accelerates protons to gamma-ray emitting energies (> 10 MeV). Pre-acceleration is inevitable for any kind of acceleration mechanisms in solar flares. To fulfill the requirements from the abundance ratios between various species of accelerated ions, pre-acceleration to the same velocities before the injection into a main acceleration process turns out to be absolutely necessary.
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Ohki, K. Particle acceleration in solar flares and some related phenomena. Space Sci Rev 51, 215–228 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00226276
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