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Injections of MeV particles via intense substorm electric fields. Lei Dai, John Wygant and EFW team. EFW/BARREL Science team meeting, June, 2014 Minnesota. RBSP unusual MeV particle injection. Moderate Storm, main phase, DST:-10 ~-30. RBSP unusual MeV particle injection.
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Injections of MeV particles via intense substorm electric fields Lei Dai, John Wygant and EFW team. EFW/BARREL Science team meeting, June, 2014 Minnesota
RBSP unusual MeV particle injection Moderate Storm, main phase, DST:-10 ~-30
RBSP unusual MeV particle injection Moderate Storm, recovery phase, DST:-30 ~-20
April-26, 2013 event electron injection signals, as large as 2MeV electrons at RBSP-A and >700keV at THEMIS D. RBSP-A THEMIS D
April-26, 2013 event Ion injection signals, as large as MeV ions at RBSP-A and >700keV at THEMIS D.
The role of electric fields in injections 1. Acceleration mechanism that conserves the first adiabatic invariant. • Guiding center drift in large scale electric fields. • Betatron acceleration associated with inductive electric fields (Db/Dt) that could be very localized. 2. Other non-adiabatic acceleration mechanisms.
Unusual MeV particle injection Unusual MeV relativistic injection during intense (as large as 10s mV/m) substorm electric fields The injected MeV particles dominate the substorm-time scale increases in relativistic electrons at geosynchronous orbit. The physics of MeV particle injection.
PSD comparison Energization through conservation of the first adiabatic invariant