Title :
Perpendicular transport of cosmic rays in turbulence
Author :
Yan, Huirong ; Lazarian, Alex
Author_Institution :
Kavli Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Peking U, Beijing, 100871, China
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We address the issue of the transport of cosmic rays (CRs) perpendicular to the mean magnetic field and discuss how the diffusion changes with the CRs´ energy and the Alfvenic Mach number of the turbulence. We show that the issue of cosmic ray sub-diffusion is only important for restricted cases when the ambient turbulence is far from that suggested by numerical simulations. Moreover, we demonstrate that on small scales, the cross field transport becomes super-diffusive.
Keywords :
Astrophysics; Cosmic rays; Magnetic fields; Numerical simulation; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2012 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2127-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0730-9244
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2012.6383522