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Effect of multiple scattering on the critical electric field for runaway electrons in the atmosphere

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A simple method for taking into account the multiple Coulomb scattering in construction of a separatrix (the line separating the regions of runaway and decelerating electrons in an electric field) is described. The desired line is obtained by solving a simple transcendental equation.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Shestidesyatiletiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    Ya. S. Elensky

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Original Russian Text © Ya.S. Elensky, 2007, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2007, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 1063–1065.

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Elensky, Y.S. Effect of multiple scattering on the critical electric field for runaway electrons in the atmosphere. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 71, 1035–1037 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873807070428

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