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Jets as accelerators of ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray particles

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The model of a cosmic jet that operates in the regimes of an MHD nozzle and a unipolar inductor is considered. It is shown that the “solid-body” rotation (according to Ferraro’s law) of helical magnetic field lines should lead to an acceleration of a small fraction of the plasma particles to ultrarelativistic energies with a spectrum dq/dɛ ∼ ɛ−n and an index n close to its observed value of n ≈ 2.70–2.75.

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  1. Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, pl. Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    B. A. Trubnikov & V. P. Vlasov

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Original Russian Text © B.A. Trubnikov, V.P. Vlasov, 2008, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭi Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 134, No. 5, pp. 902–906.

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Trubnikov, B.A., Vlasov, V.P. Jets as accelerators of ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray particles. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 107, 769–773 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377610811006X

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