Self-organized criticality and the dynamics of near-marginal turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

R Sanchez, DE Newman - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The high plasma temperatures expected at reactor conditions in magnetic confinement
fusion toroidal devices suggest that near-marginal operation could be a reality in future …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of energetic-particle transport in magnetically confined plasmas

WW Heidbrink, RB White - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Super-thermal ions and electrons occur in both space and fusion plasmas. Because these
energetic particles (EP) have large velocities, EP orbits necessarily deviate substantially …

First-passage properties of asymmetric Lévy flights

A Padash, AV Chechkin, B Dybiec… - Journal of Physics A …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Lévy flights are paradigmatic generalised random walk processes, in which the independent
stationary increments—the'jump lengths'—are drawn from an-stable jump length distribution …

Superdiffusive transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

G Zimbardo, E Amato, A Bovet, F Effenberger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
In the last few years it has been demonstrated, both by data analysis and by numerical
simulations, that the transport of energetic particles in the presence of magnetic turbulence …

Nonlinear Monte Carlo model of superdiffusive shock acceleration with magnetic field amplification

AM Bykov, DC Ellison, SM Osipov - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Fast collisionless shocks in cosmic plasmas convert their kinetic energy flow into the hot
downstream thermal plasma with a substantial fraction of energy going into a broad …

Particle transport in hybrid PIC shock simulations: A comparison of diagnostics

D Trotta, D Burgess, G Prete, S Perri… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Recent in situ and remote observations suggest that the transport regime associated with
shock-accelerated particles may be anomalous ie the mean square displacement (MSD) of …

Electron scattering, transport and energization by Alfvénic turbulence in Earth's outer radiation belt

CC Chaston - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The transport of energetic electrons immersed in Alfvénic turbulence in Earth's outer
radiation belt is explored. It is shown how electrons subject to the action of an empirically …

Transport of high-energy charged particles through spatially intermittent turbulent magnetic fields

LE Chen, AFA Bott, P Tzeferacos, A Rigby… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Identifying the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays requires understanding how they
are deflected by the stochastic, spatially intermittent intergalactic magnetic field. Here we …

Anomalous losses of energetic particles in the presence of an oscillating radial electric field in fusion plasmas

D Zarzoso, D del-Castillo-Negrete - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2020 - cambridge.org
The confinement of energetic particles in nuclear fusion devices is studied in the presence of
an oscillating radial electric field and an axisymmetric magnetic equilibrium. It is shown that …

Persistent random walks of charged particles across magnetic field lines

M Baquero-Ruiz, A Fasoli, I Furno, F Manke, P Ricci - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We investigate the time evolution of the mean location and variance of a charged particle
subject to random collisions that are Poisson distributed. The particle moves on a plane and …