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Propagation of solar cosmic rays: Diffusion versus focused diffusion

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This paper is designed to bring to the attention the fact that the effect of focusing of solar energetic particles is always essential as compared with scattering, no matter how small the value of the mean free path may be. That is why, an ordinary (‘focusing-free’) diffusion approach can not be applied to the solar cosmic ray transport. In the case of high-energy solar particles, the focused diffusion is demonstrated to lead to a power law decay of energetic particle intensity much like an ordinary diffusion. However, the power law index of the decay is ‘renormalized’ by the focusing.

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  1. Space Research Laboratory, University of Turku, SF-20520, Turku, Finland

    L. G. Kocharov, J. Torsti & R. Vainio

  2. A.F.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, 194021, St.Petersburg, Russia

    G. A. Kovaltsov

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  1. L. G. Kocharov
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Kocharov, L.G., Torsti, J., Vainio, R. et al. Propagation of solar cosmic rays: Diffusion versus focused diffusion. Sol Phys 165, 205–208 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00149100

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