
doi: 10.1029/2005gl025463
We examine the non‐linear dynamics of charged particles in “bifurcated” (double‐humped) current sheets. We show that, when the adiabaticity parameter κ is of the order unity, particles experience a negligible change of magnetic moment. Such a behavior contrasts with the prominent magnetic moment scattering that is achieved in single‐humped current sheets at such κ values. It resembles the quasi‐adiabatic (Speiser‐type) behaviors that is obtained at κ ≪ 1 as a result of resonance between the fast oscillation about the midplane and the slow gyromotion near this plane. We demonstrate that beams of κ ≈ 1 particles may form downstream of bifurcated current sheets, which propagate along the magnetic field lines up to high latitudes. Quasi‐adiabaticity and associated beam formation thus occur at significantly larger κ values in double‐humped current sheets than in single‐humped ones, or equivalently for lower particle energy and/or weaker field reversal.
[PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], [SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 530
[PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], [SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 530
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