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Cosmic-Ray Energy Changes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

L. J. Gleeson  and
G. M. Webb
L. J. Gleeson
Affiliation:
Monash University, Clayton
G. M. Webb
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a new expression for < ṗ > the average time-rate-of-change of momentum of cosmic-ray particles propagating in the interplanetary region. The expression derived replaces the previously used adiabatic deceleration formula and it is arrived at by a rearrangement and reinterpretation of the well known equation of transport for cosmic-rays. Thus, although we provide a new expression for < ṗ > we maintain the equation of transport and do not render invalid results for differential intensity and differential current density of cosmic-ray particles obtained by its solution (Jokipii 1971; Gleeson 1972).

Type
Cosmic Ray Astronomy
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , September 1974 , pp. 297 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1974

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