Particle Acceleration Mechanisms




Rami Vainio, Alexandr Afanasiev

Olga E. Malandraki, Norma B. Crosby

2018

Solar Particle Radiation Storms Forecasting and Analysis: The HESPERIA HORIZON 2020 Project and Beyond

Astrophysics and Space Science Library

444

45

61

978-3-319-60050-5

978-3-319-60051-2

0067-0057

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60051-2_3

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-60051-2_3

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/36896101



This chapter provides a short tutorial review on particle acceleration in dynamic electromagnetic fields under scenarios relevant to the problem of particle acceleration in the solar corona and solar wind during solar eruptions. It concentrates on fundamental aspects of the acceleration process and refrains from presenting detailed modeling of the specific conditions in solar eruptive plasmas. All particle acceleration mechanisms (in the solar corona) are related to electric fields that can persist in the highly conductive plasma: either electrostatic (or potential) or inductive related to temporally variable magnetic fields through Faraday’s law. Mechanisms involving both kinds of fields are included in the tutorial.


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