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A new development is given of the solution of the equation of the force-field approximation for the propagation of galactic cosmic rays in the interplanetary region. It leads to simpler methods for determining the force-field parameters. A method is given for determining the separable diffusion coefficient from observations of galactic electron spectrum and near-Earth electron spectra; it is shown that this diffusion coefficient is not unique but may have a periodic-like dependence upon rigidity; and the method is used to obtain diffusion coefficients for 1965 and 1968. Approximate formulae relating small changes in intensity and diffusion coefficient are developed and some applications of these noted; in one it is shown that the form of, and changes in, diffusion coefficient deduced previously for a neutron monitor event during June–September 1969 are unnecessarily constrained and therefore probably not correct.
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Gleeson, L.J., Urch, I.H. A study of the force-field equation for the propagation of galactic cosmic rays. Astrophys Space Sci 25, 387–404 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00649180
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