Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Alfvénic Turbulence
Cristian Vega,
Stanislav Boldyrev,
Vadim Roytershteyn
Abstract:Strong magnetically dominated Alfvénic turbulence is an efficient engine of nonthermal particle acceleration in a relativistic collisionless plasma. We argue that in the limit of strong magnetization, the type of energy distribution attained by accelerated particles depends on the relative strengths of turbulent fluctuations δ
B
0 and the guide field B
0. If δ
B
0 ≪ B
0, the particle magnetic moments are… Show more
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