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Particle Diffusion in the Radiation Belts

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Part of the book series: Physics and Chemistry in Space (SPACE, volume 7)

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The advent of artificial earth satellites in 1957-58 opened a new dimension in the field of geophysical exploration. Discovery of the earth's radiation belts, consisting of energetic electrons and ions (chiefly protons) trapped by the geomagnetic field, followed almost immediately [1,2]' This largely unexpected development spurred a continuing interest in magnetospheric exploration, which so far has led to the launching of several hundred carefully instrumented spacecraft. Since their discovery, the radiation belts have been a subject of intensive theoretical analysis also. Over the years, a semiquantitative understanding of the governing dynamical processes has gradually evol­ ved. The underlying kinematical framework of radiation-belt theory is given by the adiabatic theory of charged-particle motion [3J, and the interesting dynamical phenomena are associated with the violation of one or more of the kinematical invariants of adiabatic motion. Among the most important of the operative dynamical processes are those that act in a stochastic manner upon the radiation-belt particles. Such stochastic processes lead to the diffusion of particle distributions with respect to the adiabatic invariants. The observational data indicate that some form of particle diffusion plays an essential role in virtually every aspect of the radiation belts.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, USA

    Michael Schulz

  • Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

    Louis J. Lanzerotti

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Particle Diffusion in the Radiation Belts

  • Authors: Michael Schulz, Louis J. Lanzerotti

  • Series Title: Physics and Chemistry in Space

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65675-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-65677-4Published: 18 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-65675-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0079-1938

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 218

  • Topics: Physics, general

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