Acceleration of particles in imbalanced magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Bogdan Teaca1, Martin S Weidl2, Frank Jenko2

  • 1Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, United Kingdom and Max-Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics and Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, D-85748 Garching, Germany and Max Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany.

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