Acceleration in a Periodic Magnetic Field
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⚛️ physics.acc-ph
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magneticaccelerationdiffusionfieldparticlesalfvencoefficientconnection
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It is shown that acceleration of particles in a homogeneous magnetic field that varies periodically with time (Alfven magnetic pumping) reduces to a diffusion of the particles in momentum space; a connection is established between the diffusion coefficient and the turbulence spectrum (k-wave number).
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