Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection from the Nonrelativistic to Relativistic Regime: The Dominant Acceleration Mechanism and Formation of Power-law Energy Distributions

Fan Guo1, Xiaocan Li1, Yi-Hsin Liu2, Hui Li3 and William S Daughton4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States