Alpha Core-Beam Origin in Low-${\hat{I}}^2$ Solar Wind Plasma: Insights from Fully Kinetic Simulation

Luca Pezzini, Fabio Bacchini, Andrei N. Zhukov +2

In-situ observations of the fast solar wind in the inner-heliosphere show that minor ions and ion sub-populations often exhibit distinct drift velocities. Both alpha particles and…