A new method for the simulation of electron and ion acceleration during magnetic reconnection in macroscale systems

Zhiyu Yin1, James Frederick Drake1, Marc Swisdak2, Harry Arnold3, Fan Guo4 and Joel Dahlin5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States