Abstract

This study focuses on charged particles’ acceleration in Reconnecting Current Sheets (RCS) taking place during solar flares. A Harris type topology was used to describe the electric and magnetic field of reconnecting current sheets. The use of a Hamiltonian formalism provided analytical laws describing the motion of the particles. Numerical simulations of a thermal distribution of particles interacting with single or multiple current sheets are presented. The final kinetic energy distributions after an interaction with a single current sheet present short energy ranges. When thermal particles interact with multiple current sheets a broad kinetic energy distribution is created. However, it is shown that there is an upper bound in the amount of kinetic energy that the particles can gain.

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