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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 361-373Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1071/AS01047
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acceleration of particles; shocks
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We review the theory of shock drift acceleration, developing the theory in detail for gyrophase-averaged particle. It is shown how both the upstream and downstream velocity spaces separate into different regions according to the interaction of the particles with the shock (reflection, transmission, head-on, overtaking). The effects of the cross-shock electric field and of the magnetic overshoot are discussed. The effectiveness of acceleration is estimated for Maxwellian and power law distributions. The condition for a beam instability to be generated by reflected particles is determined and found to be independent of the distribution function for isotropic inflowing electrons.
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