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Surfatron acceleration in electromagnetic waves with a low phase velocity

A. I. Neishtadt^ab, A. V. Artemyev^a, L. M. Zelenyi^a, D. L. Vainshtein<sup>ac

a</sup> Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
^b Dept. of Math. Sciences, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU Loughborough, UK
^c Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, PA 19122 Philadelphia, USA

Abstract: The possibility of unlimited surfatron acceleration of nonrelativistic charged particles by slow electromagnetic waves has been revealed. The capture into such an acceleration regime has been described. The region of the parameters in which the effect of the capture and acceleration exists has been considered. The contribution of this mechanism to an increase in the energy of charged particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere has been estimated.

PACS: 05.45.-a, 94.05.Pt

Received: 10.03.2009

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2009, 89:9, 441–447

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