Cosmic-Ray Energy Changes
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Vol. 2 (5) , 297-299
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1323358000013990
Abstract
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).Keywords
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