Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-06-03
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 317 (2000) 973
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS - accepted
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03722.x
The role of MHD turbulence in the cosmic ray acceleration process in a volume with a reconnecting magnetic field is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. We performed modelling of proton acceleration with the 3D analytic model of stationary reconnection of Craig et al. (1995) providing the unperturbed background conditions. Perturbations of particle trajectories due to a turbulent magnetic field component were simulated using small-amplitude pitch-angle momentum scattering, enabling modelling of both small and large amplitude turbulence in a wide wave vector range. Within the approach, no second-order Fermi acceleration process is allowed. Comparison of the acceleration process in models involving particle trajectory perturbations to the unperturbed one reveals that the turbulence can substantially increase the acceleration efficiency, enabling much higher final particle energies and flat particle spectra.
Kobak Tomasz
Ostrowski Michal
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