On the mean free path of solar cosmic rays - I. Protons

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May 2001

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Solar Physics, v. 200, Issue 1/2, p. 177-187 (2001).

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The spatial transport of charged particles in the presence of pure slab Alfvén waves, pure isotropic magnetosonic waves and their mixture is considered using Monte Carlo particle simulations. We show that the mean free path of solar cosmic ray protons strongly depends on the assumed spectrum and amplitude of MHD turbulence but much less on the type of the considered waves. It is demonstrated that, for realistic solar wind parameters, the presented wide range wave spectrum models can reproduce the observed mean free path in a particular SEP event but not in a wide range of rigidity characterized by the Palmer's `consensus'.

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