Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8141491 | New Astronomy | 2015 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Solar neutron events provide important opportunities to explore particle acceleration mechanisms using data from ground-based detectors and spacecrafts. Energetic neutrons carry crucial physics information of the acceleration site, such as energy spectrum, atmospheric elements of solar flare, scale height, convergence of the magnetic field and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Here 12 representative solar neutron events observed on the Earth, together with X and γ-ray observations from spacecrafts are presented. Theoretical approaches on solar neutrons that are carried out mainly through the Monte Carlo simulation are compared with the observation data, and the constraints of different theoretical models on the observations are to be summarized.
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Authors
Xiao Xia Yu, Hong Lu, Guan Ting Chen, Xin Qiao Li, Jian Kui Shi, Cheng Ming Tan,