The peculiarities of diffusion of the galactic cosmic rays at low energies |
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Authors: | V N Fedorenko |
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Institution: | (1) A.F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Leningrad, USSR |
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Abstract: | I give an interpretation of a result of Simpsonet al. (1988) on the variation with kinetic energyT
i
of the mean pathlengthX
m
(T
i
) of the galactic cosmic rays (CGRs) in the range 0.1T
i
10.0 GeV nucl–1. I argue that the data onX
m
(T
i
) may be interpreted in terms of a model of GCR diffusion on the one-dimensional Alfvén-wave turbulence, having a cutoff in the spectrum at frequencies
h
, where
h
is the proton gyrofrequency. The cutoff results in changing of the character of variation of the GCR diffusion coefficientD(T
i
)T
a
in the rangeT
i
1 GeV nucl–1 towards some more complicated variation at 0.1T
i
1.0 GeV nucl–1 due to the peculiarities of the pitch-angle scattering at 900. |
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