Propagation of solar cosmic rays: Diffusion versus focused diffusion |
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| Authors: | L G Kocharov J Torsti R Vainio G A Kovaltsov |
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| Institution: | (1) Space Research Laboratory, University of Turku, SF-20520 Turku, Finland;(2) A.F.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, 194021 St.Petersburg, Russia |
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| Abstract: | This paper is designed to bring to the attention the fact that the effect of focusing of solar energetic particles is always essential as compared with scattering, no matter how small the value of the mean free path may be. That is why, an ordinary ( focusing-free ) diffusion approach can not be applied to the solar cosmic ray transport. In the case of high-energy solar particles, the focused diffusion is demonstrated to lead to a power law decay of energetic particle intensity much like an ordinary diffusion. However, the power law index of the decay is renormalized by the focusing. |
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