Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence dissipation and stochastic proton acceleration in solar flares

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Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Particle Acceleration, Solar Flares, Solar Protons, Landau Damping, Magnetosonic Resonance, Stochastic Processes, Wave Propagation

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The Alfven and fast magnetosonic wave MHD modes can stochastically accelerate protons from super-Alfvenic to ultrarelativistic energies in solar flares. It is the Landau resonance, however, which generates most of the magnetosonic wave energy being dissipated on electron heating rather than on stochastic proton acceleration. Alfven waves are also subject to a nonlinear wave-particle interaction, and nonlinear Landau damping can selectively and efficiently heat the ambient protons to preaccelerate many to super-Alfvenic speeds. A spectrum of Alfven waves can therefore energize protons from low-temperature thermal to ultrarelativistic energies through a combination of linear and nonlinear particle-wave interactions.

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