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Parallel and perpendicular diffusion coefficients of energetic charged particles with adiabatic focusing

Space Physics 2018-12-12 v4 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

It is very important to understand stochastic diffusion of energetic charged particles in non-uniform background magnetic field in plasmas of astrophysics and fusion devices. Using different methods considering along-field adiabatic focusing effect, various authors derived parallel diffusion coefficient κ\kappa_\parallel and its correction TT to κ0\kappa_{\parallel 0}, where κ0\kappa_{\parallel 0} is the parallel diffusion coefficient without adiabatic focusing effect. In this paper, using the improved perturbation method developed by He \& Schlickeiser and iteration process, we obtain a new correction TT' to κ0\kappa_{\parallel 0}. Furthermore, by employing the isotropic pitch-angle scattering model Dμμ=D(1μ2)D_{\mu\mu}=D(1-\mu^2), we find that TT' has the different sign as that of TT. In this paper the spatial perpendicular diffusion coefficient κ\kappa_\bot with the adiabatic focusing effect is also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1707.08058,
  title  = {Parallel and perpendicular diffusion coefficients of energetic charged particles with adiabatic focusing},
  author = {J. F. Wang and G. Qin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08058},
  year   = {2018}
}