New description of charged particle propagation in random magnetic fields

Details New description of charged particle propagation in random magnetic fields New description of charged particle propagation in random magnetic fields

Apr 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...425..331e&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 425, no. 1, p. 331-342

Statistics

Computation

9

Approximation, Charged Particles, Computational Astrophysics, Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamics, Monte Carlo Method, Particle Emission, Functions (Mathematics), Matrices (Mathematics), Scattering, Temperature Profiles

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When charged particles spiral along a large constant magnetic field, their trajectories are scattered by random components that are superposed on the guiding field. In the simplest analysis of this situation, scattering causes the particles to diffuse parallel to the guiding field. At the next level of approximation, moving pulses that correspond to a coherent mode of propagation are present, but they are represented by delta-functions whose infinitely narrow width makes no sense physically and is inconsistent with the finite duration of coherent pulses observed in solar energetic particle events. To derive a more realistic description, the transport problem is formulated in terms of 4 x 4 matrices, which derive from a representation of the particle distribution function in terms of eigenfunctions of the scattering operator, and which lead to useful approximations that give explicit predictions of the detailed evolution not only of the coherent pulses, but also of the diffusive wake. More specifically, the new description embodies a simple convolution of a narrow Gaussian with the solutions above that involve delta-functions, but with a slightly reduced coherent velocity. The validity of these approximations, which can easily be calculated on a desktop computer, has been exhaustively confirmed by comparison with results of Monte Carlo simulations which kept track of 50 million particles and which were carried out on the Maspar computer at Goddard Space Flight Center.

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