Chin. Phys. Lett.  2008, Vol. 25 Issue (12): 4493-4496    DOI:
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Simulation of Resonant Interaction between Energetic Electrons and Whistler-Mode Chorus in the Outer Radiation Belt
SU Zhen-Peng, ZHENG Hui-Nan
CAS Key Lab for Basic Plasma Science, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026
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SU Zhen-Peng, ZHENG Hui-Nan 2008 Chin. Phys. Lett. 25 4493-4496
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Abstract We construct a realistic model to evaluate the chorus wave--particle interaction in the outer radiation belt L=4.5. This model incorporates a plasmatrough number density model, a field-aligned density model and a realistic wave power and frequency model. We solve the 2D bounce-averaged momentum-pitch-angle Fokker--Planck equation and show that the Whistler-mode chorus can be effective in the acceleration of electrons, and enhance the phase space density for energies of ~1 MeV by a factor from 10 to 103 in about two days, consistent with the observation. We also demonstrate that ignorance of the electron number density variation along field line and magnetic local time in the previous work yields an overestimate of energetic electron phase space density by a factor 5~10 at large pitch-angle after two days, suggesting that a realistic plasma density model is very important to evaluate the evolution of energetic electrons in the outer radiation belt.
Keywords: 94.20.Wj      52.35.Hr      94.30.Lr      94.30.Hn     
Received: 21 September 2008      Published: 27 November 2008
PACS:  94.20.wj (Wave/particle interactions)  
  52.35.Hr (Electromagnetic waves (e.g., electron-cyclotron, Whistler, Bernstein, upper hybrid, lower hybrid))  
  94.30.Lr (Magnetic storms, substorms)  
  94.30.Hn (Energetic trapped particles)  
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