FERMI ACCELERATION OF ELECTRONS IN THE OUTER VAN ALLEN BELT

Journal Article · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1959 · Phys. Rev. Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.3.316· OSTI ID:4210592

Crawford, J A

It can be shown that a large solar storm cloud should wipe out any radiation in the outer Van Allen belt. In order therefore to account for the Presence of this intense radiation it has been suggested that it is originally trapped in the cloud and deposited in the earth's field during the geomagnetic storm. It is shown that this assumption is unnecessary since the radiation in the outer belt may be accounted for by a local Fermi acceleration created by the interaction between the storm and the geomagnetic field. (W.D.M.)

• Research Organization: Univ. of California, Berkeley
• NSA Number: NSA-13-022754
• OSTI ID: 4210592
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev. Letters, Journal Name: Phys. Rev. Letters Vol. Vol: 3
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ACCELERATION
COSMIC RADIATION
EARTH
ELECTRONS
FERMI ACCELERATION
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MOTION
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
RADIATION BELTS
SOLAR WIND
SUN
TURBULENCE
VELOCITY