<p>Sawtooth events are repeated injections of energetic particles at geosynchronous orbit. Although studies have shown that 94% of sawtooth events occur during &#160;magnetic storm times, the main factor that causes a sawtooth event is unknown. Simulations have suggested that heavy ions like O<sup>+</sup>&#160;may play a role in driving the sawtooth mode by increasing the magnetotail pressure and causing the magnetic tail to stretch. O<sup>+</sup>&#160;ions located in the nightside auroral region have a direct access to the near-earth plasma-sheet. O<sup>+</sup> in the dayside cusp can reach to the midtail plasma-sheet when the convection velocity is sufficiently strong. Whether the dayside or nightside source is more important is not known.</p><p>We show results of a statistical study of the variation of the O+ and H+ outflow flux during sawtooth events for SIR and ICME sawtooth events. We perform a superposed epoch analysis of the ion outflow using the TEAMS (Time-of-Flight Energy Angle Mass Spectrograph) instrument on the FAST spacecraft. TEAMS measures the ion composition over the energy range of 1 eV e<sup>-1</sup>&#160;to 12 keV e<sup>-1</sup>.&#160;&#160;We have done major corrections and calibrations (producing 3D data set, anode calibration, mass classification, removing ram effect and incorporating dead time corrections) on&#160;TEAMS data and produced a data set for four data species (H<sup>+</sup>, O<sup>+</sup>, and He<sup>+</sup>).&#160;From 1996 to 2007, we have data for 133 orbits of CME-driven and for 103 orbits of SIR-driven sawtooth events with an altitude above 1500 km. We found that:</p><ul><li>the averaged O<sup>+</sup> outflow flux is more intense in the cusp dayside than in the nightside, before and after onset time.</li>
<li><span>Before onset, an intense averaged outflow flux in the dawnside of CME events is seen. This outflow decreases after onset time.</span></li>
<li><span>In both CME-driven and SIR-driven, the averaged O</span><sup>+</sup><span> outflow increases after onset time, in the nightside, cusp dayside. This increase is greater on the nightside than in the cusp.</span></li>
</ul><p>We will develop this study by performing a similar statistical study for H<sup>+</sup> outflow and finally will compare the H<sup>+</sup> result with the O<sup>+ </sup>result.</p>