Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007jgra..11204206s&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue A4, CiteID A04206
Physics
Plasma Physics
68
Magnetospheric Physics: Radiation Belts, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetic Storms And Substorms (7954), Magnetospheric Physics: Electric Fields (2411), Magnetospheric Physics: Energetic Particles: Precipitating, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984)
Scientific paper
Radiation belt electrons can interact with various modes of plasma wave in their drift orbits about the Earth, including whistler-mode chorus outside the plasmasphere, and both whistler-mode hiss and electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves inside the plasmasphere. Electrons undergo gyroresonant diffusion in their interactions with these waves. To determine the timescales for electron momentum diffusion and pitch angle diffusion, we develop bounce-averaged quasi-linear resonant diffusion coefficients for field-aligned electromagnetic waves in a hydrogen or multi-ion (H+, He+, O+) plasma. We assume that the Earth's magnetic field is dipolar and that the wave frequency spectrum is Gaussian. Evaluation of the diffusion coefficients requires the solution of a sixth-order polynomial equation for the resonant wave frequencies in the case of a multi-ion (H+, He+, O+) plasma, compared to the solution of a fourth-order polynomial equation for a hydrogen plasma. In some cases, diffusion coefficients for field-aligned waves can provide a valuable approximation for diffusion rates for oblique waves calculated using higher-order resonances. Bounce-averaged diffusion coefficients for field-aligned waves can be evaluated generally in minimal CPU time and can therefore be profitably incorporated into comprehensive kinetic radiation belt codes.
Meredith Nigel P.
Ni Binbin
Summers Danny
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