On a difficulty with accelerating particles at slow-mode shocks

Details On a difficulty with accelerating particles at slow-mode shocks On a difficulty with accelerating particles at slow-mode shocks

Feb 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....91.1699i&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, Feb. 1, 1986, p. 1699, 1700.

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Magnetic Field Configurations, Particle Acceleration, Plasma Acceleration, Propagation Modes, Propagation Velocity, Shock Wave Propagation, Energetic Particles, Magnetic Storms, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Solar Flares

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The available information on slow-mode shocks is briefly reviewed in order to determine whether these shocks are capable of accelerating particles to high energies, thus providing a possible mechanism for energetic particle production at reconnection sites. It is noted that in contrast to fast shocks, the evolutionary conditions at a steady slow shock require the upstream plasma to flow into the shock with a normal component slower than the intermediate speed. Consequently, the right-polarized waves will escape from a slow shock, and backstreaming particles scattered by these waves will not be convected back to the shock. There will be no effective compression, and further acceleration will not occur.

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