Chaotic scattering and acceleration of ions in the earth's magnetotail

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Dec 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17.2317a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, Dec. 1990, p. 2317-2320.

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Geomagnetic Tail, Ion Scattering, Magnetospheric Proton Density, Particle Acceleration, Stochastic Processes, Current Sheets, Equilibrium Methods, Particle Trajectories, Trapped Particles

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The steady-state proton distribution in the earth's magnetotail is derived both in configuratin and velocity space, taking into account the proton's energization in the dawn-dusk electric field and its motion due to deterministic chaos. This stochastic motion effectively leads to pitch angle scattering and a redistribution of protons between the central plasma sheet and its boundary, the plasma sheet boundary layer. Knowledge of these effects makes it possible to explain the previously observed features of the ion distribution and to predict others for future experimental work.

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