An explicit bounce average calculation of adiabatic particle drifts
Abstract
The explicit method of bounce averaging the adiabatic drift of a charged particle is generalized, and the relationship of this method to earlier results derived from more implicitly based approaches is briefly discussed.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- February 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1029/93JA02853
- Bibcode:
- 1994JGR....99.2383L
- Keywords:
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- Adiabatic Equations;
- Average;
- Charged Particles;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Plasma Drift;
- Current Sheets;
- Geomagnetism;
- Particle Motion;
- Steady State;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Planetary magnetospheres;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma sheet;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Plasmasphere