Abstract The importance of transverse diffusion for cosmic rays propagation is reinvestigated with a description of the turbulent magnetic field based on toroïdal plasma theory. A coupling between transverse diffusion and parallel diffusion is found to occur on a galactic scale in a number of cases. The radial diffusion coefficient perpendicular to the average magnetic field is found smaller than previously thougth by an important factor. So a better confinement is expected in the Galaxy.
Importance of transverse diffusion for galactic cosmic rays
Advances in Space Research ; 4 , 2-3 ; 225-227
1984-01-01
3 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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