Escaping dynamics of relativistic protons in the Earth's magnetosphere.

IF 2.4 3区物理与天体物理 Q1 Mathematics

Physical review. E Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044216

Álvaro Meseguer, Juan C Vallejo, Jesús M Seoane, Francisco Marqués, Miguel A F Sanjuán

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Abstract

In this work, we study the motion of protons under the influence of the Earth's magnetic field. We investigate the dynamics and topology of invariant spatial regions in two magnetic field models, namely, the dipolar and Luhmann tail configurations. In both cases, we analyze the motion of the protons in the relativistic regime, with kinetic energy intervals in the range 10

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Physical review. E 物理-物理：流体与等离子体

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

16.70%

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审稿时长

3.3 months

期刊介绍： Physical Review E (PRE), broad and interdisciplinary in scope, focuses on collective phenomena of many-body systems, with statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics as the central themes of the journal. Physical Review E publishes recent developments in biological and soft matter physics including granular materials, colloids, complex fluids, liquid crystals, and polymers. The journal covers fluid dynamics and plasma physics and includes sections on computational and interdisciplinary physics, for example, complex networks.