Magnetic Relaxation and Particle Acceleration in a Flaring Twisted Coronal Loop |
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Authors: | M Gordovskyy P K Browning |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824-3525, U.S.A |
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Abstract: | In the present work we aim to study particle acceleration in twisted coronal loops. For this purpose, an MHD model of magnetic
reconnection in a linearly unstable twisted magnetic fluxtube is considered. Further, the electric and magnetic fields obtained
in the MHD simulations are used to calculate proton and electron trajectories in the guiding-centre approximation. It is shown
that particle acceleration in such a model is distributed rather uniformly along the coronal loop and the high-energy population
remains generally neutral. It also follows from the model that the horizontal cross-section of the volume occupied by high-energy
particles near the loop footpoints increases with time, which can be used as an observational proxy. |
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