The diffusive motion of charged particles in synthetic magnetic turbulence with different properties is investigated by using numerical simulations with unprecedented dynamical range, which allow us to ensure that both the inertial range and the long wavelength part of the turbulent spectrum are properly described. This is of particular importance in evaluating previous suggestions that parallel and perpendicular diffusion coefficients differ in their energy dependence, an assertion at odds with the many claims of universality of the D-perpendicular to and D-parallel to as functions of particle energy. Cases with and without an ordered magnetic field are discussed. Results of the numerical simulations are compared with available theoretical models, for slab, slab/2D and isotropic turbulence. We find widespread evidence that universality is broken, and that the ratio D-perpendicular to/D-parallel to is not independent of energy. The implications of this finding for the physics of cosmic ray transport are discussed in depth.
Novel aspects of cosmic ray diffusion in synthetic magnetic turbulence
Dundovic, Andrej; Pezzi, Oreste; Blasi, Pasquale; Evoli, Carmelo; Matthaeus, William H.
Journal:
Physical review. D. Print 102 (10),
pp. 103016-1 - 103016-20
Year:
2020
ISTP Authors: Oreste Pezzi
Keywords: cosmic ray propagation, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, particle astrophysics, interplanetary magnetic field, numerical simulations in gravitation & astrophysics
Research Activitie: JOURNAL ARTICLES
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