High-energy Particle Transport in Three-dimensional Anisotropic Turbulent Magnetic Fields

Abstract

The understanding and modeling of high-energy particles transport in turbulent magnetic fields is an important open question in space- and astrophysics. The multiscale, nonlinear nature of turbulence, and the high variability of turbulence properties across different environments, make it particularly challenging to reach a full understanding of the interactions between particles and turbulent fluctuations. Using synthetic, realistically looking turbulent magnetic field realizations generated by the BxC toolkit, we investigate how the scattering of particles is affected by anisotropic fluctuations in strongly turbulent fields. We find evidence that, in the absence of a uniform background or guide magnetic field, the scattering process is not governed by the turbulence correlation length. We then further verify this hypothesis by studying particle transport in the presence of a guide field. We find evidence of a different scattering mechanism than the usual pitch-angle diffusion used to describe scattering in strong-guide-field settings.

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