Particle Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks

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15 January 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0201243

Abstract

I review the current status of Fermi acceleration theory at relativistic shocks. I first discuss the relativistic shock jump conditions, then describe the non-relativistic Fermi mechanism and the differences introduced by relativistic flows. I present numerical calculations of the accelerated particle spectrum, and examine the maximum energy attainable by this process. I briefly consider the minimum energy for Fermi acceleration, and a possible electron pre-acceleration mechanism.

Keywords

ACCELERATED PARTICLE
ACCELERATION THEORY
RELATIVISTIC SHOCKS
FERMI ACCELERATION
PRE ACCELERATION
PARTICLE
SHOCKS

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