Effect of magnetic helicity upon rectilinear propagation of charged particles in random magnetic fields

Details Effect of magnetic helicity upon rectilinear propagation of charged particles in random magnetic fields Effect of magnetic helicity upon rectilinear propagation of charged particles in random magnetic fields

Aug 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...395..185e&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 395, no. 1, p. 185-191.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Charged Particles, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamics, Particle Acceleration, Particle Trajectories, Fokker-Planck Equation, Monte Carlo Method, Transport Properties

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When charged particles spiral along a large constant magnetic field, their trajectories are scattered by any random field components that are superposed on the guiding field. If the random field configuration embodies helicity, the scattering is asymmetrical with respect to a plane perpendicular to the guiding field, for particles moving into the forward hemisphere are scattered at different rates from those moving into the backward hemisphere. This asymmetry gives rise to new terms in the transport equations that describe propagation of charged particles. Helicity has virtually no impact on qualitative features of the diffusive mode of propagation. However, characteristic velocities of the coherent modes that appear after a highly anisotropic injection exhibit an asymmetry related to helicity. Explicit formulas, which embody the effects of helicity, are given for the anisotropies, the coefficient diffusion, and the coherent velocities. Predictions derived from these expressions are in good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations of particle transport, but the simulations reveal certain phenomena whose explanation calls for further analytical work.

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