Preferential acceleration of heavy ions in magnetic reconnection: Hybrid-kinetic simulations with electron inertia

Neeraj Jain, Jörg Büchner, Miroslav Bárta +1

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) in the energy range 10s KeV/nucleon-100s MeV/nucleon originate from Sun. Their high flux near Earth may damage the space borne electronics and gene…