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PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT IN RECONNECTING PLASMAS

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We model the behaviour of particles in and around X-type magnetic configurations, a possible solar flare reconnection geometry. Particles are accelerated by a time-varying electric field close to the neutral point, and followed by integrating the equations of motion. When their motion becomes adiabatic a stochastic simulation is used to model their further transport in a collisional magnetised medium.

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  1. Solar System Division, ESA/SSD, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    LYNDSAY FLETCHER

  2. Dipartimento de Fisica, Universita della Calabria, Rende, Italy

    PANAGIOTA PETKAKI

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FLETCHER, L., PETKAKI, P. PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT IN RECONNECTING PLASMAS. Solar Physics 172, 267–270 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004992228306

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