Simultaneous Acceleration of Protons and Electrons at Nonrelativistic Quasiparallel Collisionless Shocks

Park, Jaehong; Caprioli, Damiano; Spitkovsky, Anatoly

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.085003

Title: Simultaneous Acceleration of Protons and Electrons at Nonrelativistic Quasiparallel Collisionless Shocks

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Authors:: Park, Jaehong; Caprioli, Damiano; Spitkovsky, Anatoly

Publication Date:: Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2015

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1181630

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; TG-AST100035

Resource Type:: Publisher's Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 114; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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                    Park, Jaehong, Caprioli, Damiano, and Spitkovsky, Anatoly. Simultaneous Acceleration of Protons and Electrons at Nonrelativistic Quasiparallel Collisionless Shocks.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.085003.

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                    Park, Jaehong, Caprioli, Damiano, & Spitkovsky, Anatoly. Simultaneous Acceleration of Protons and Electrons at Nonrelativistic Quasiparallel Collisionless Shocks.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.085003

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                    Park, Jaehong, Caprioli, Damiano, and Spitkovsky, Anatoly. Fri .  
"Simultaneous Acceleration of Protons and Electrons at Nonrelativistic Quasiparallel Collisionless Shocks".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.085003.

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  title        = {Simultaneous Acceleration of Protons and Electrons at Nonrelativistic Quasiparallel Collisionless Shocks},

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