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Cosmic-ray particle transport in weakly turbulent plasmas. Part 2. Mean free path of cosmic-ray protons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Reinhard Schlickeiser  and
Ulrich Achat
Reinhard Schlickeiser
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
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We use the general Fokker–Planck coefficients derived in the first paper of this series, which describe the interaction of energetic charged particles with weak plasma turbulence in a magnetized plasma, to calculate the mean free path λ of cosmic-ray particles along the uniform background magnetic field. This quantity is a key parameter for confining energetic charged particles in cosmic plasmas, and can be experimentally inferred from interplanetary in-situ observations of solar particle events

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , August 1993 , pp. 85 - 107
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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