  We study the compression driven magnetic reconnection in the relativistic
electron-positron plasma. Making use of a 2.5D particle-in-cell code, we
simulated compression of a magnetized plasma layer containing a current sheet
within it. We found that the particle spectrum within the reconnecting sheet
becomes non-thermal; it could be approximated by a power-law distribution with
an index of -1 and an exponential cutoff.
