Small-angle scattering and diffusion: Application to relativistic shock acceleration
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2003
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Protheroe, R.
Meli, A.
Donea, A.
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Space Science Reviews, 2003; 107(1-2):369-372
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R.J. Protheroe, A. Meli and A.-C. Donea
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We investigate ways of accurately simulating the propagation of energetic charged particles over small times where the standard Monte Carlo approximation to diffusive transport breaks down. We find that a small-angle scattering procedure with appropriately chosen step-lengths and scattering angles gives accurate results, and we apply this to the simulation of propagation upstream in relativistic shock acceleration.
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Copyright © 2003. Space Science Reviews. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Submitted to Cornell University’s online archive www.arXiv.org in 2003 by Ray Protheroe. Post-print sourced from www.arxiv.org.