Zank, G. P.Lipatov, Alexander2024-01-302024-01-301999-08-25Zank, G. P., et al. "Pickup Ion Injection and Acceleration at Perpendicular Shocks." Proceedings of the 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference 7 (1999): 468. https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1999ICRC....7..468Z.http://hdl.handle.net/11603/3152426th International Cosmic Ray Conference. August 17-25, 1999. Salt Lake City, Utah, USAResults from a multiscale hybrid kinetic simulation of low plasma beta supercritical perpendicular shocks are presented. Freshly ionized pickup ions are included self-consistently. It is found that perpendicular shocks can accelerate pickup ions from an initial thermal" shell distribution to high energies. The mechanism by which the pickup ions are energized is that of multiply reflected ion (MRI) acceleration Zank et al., 1996; Lee et al., 1996 . The injection efficiency is found to be very high and maximum energies of nearly 0.5 MeV are attained. MRI acceleration may provide a solution to the so-called injection problem for anomalous cosmic rays.4 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Text