High energy proton acceleration in dissolving plasma clots
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 acc-phys
Astrophysics
plasm-ph
Abstract
We consider the acceleration of particles (protons) in a plasma clot by an induced field which appears due to the dissolving of the clot. The mechanism of this acceleration is based on a model where the clot consists of double flat moving current layers. It is assumed that the currents flow in opposite directions, while the clot moves in a perpendicular one. It is shown that protons can reach the highest observed energy (of the order of GeV), providing that the size of the clot is large enough.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9605236,
title = {High energy proton acceleration in dissolving plasma clots},
author = {V. Davidovsky and Sh. Shvartsman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9605236},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, latex, no figures