Energy Partition in Relativistic Electron-Positron-Ion Reconnection
Nilay Mancini, Luca Comisso, Lorenzo Sironi
Relativistic magnetic reconnection, a prime mechanism for particle acceleration, has been extensively studied in electron--ion and pair plasmas, but how the dissipated energy is shared among species in electron--positron--ion plasmas, and in particular how ions are energized within a pair-dominated layer, remains …