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This work is devoted to the study of the self-consistent interaction of nonthermal electrons injected into a flare loop and whistler turbulence in it. Both processes of redistribution of injected electrons by energy and pitch angles and processes of internal generation and damping of turbulence itself are considered. It is shown that both in the growth phase and in the decay phase of the injection, whistler generation occurs at relatively high frequencies. The interaction of nonthermal electrons with these waves leads to an increase in their concentration in the energy range of 50–150 keV due to efficient pitch-angle scattering and an additional stochastic acceleration process.
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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 22-12-00308 (VFM), and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research_Czech Republic, project no. 20-52-26 006 (LVF).
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Filatov, L.V., Melnikov, V.F. Acceleration of Nonthermal Electrons in Coordinated Interaction with Whistler Turbulence in a Flare Loop. Geomagn. Aeron. 63, 1079–1085 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793223070071
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