A regular mechanism for the acceleration of charged particles on the front of a shock wave
Abstract
The paper considers the idealized problem of the acceleration of particles by a strong plane shock wave which propagates in a medium containing a small-scale magnetic field irregularity that scatters the particles. A mathematical treatment is developed, and a model for the mechanism of acceleration is described. The study is pertinent to the investigation of the acceleration of galactic cosmic rays.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk SSSR Doklady
- Pub Date:
- June 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977DoSSR.234.1306K
- Keywords:
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- Charged Particles;
- Cosmic Rays;
- Interplanetary Medium;
- Particle Acceleration;
- Shock Fronts;
- Galactic Radiation;
- Nonuniform Magnetic Fields;
- Plane Waves;
- Space Radiation