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Modeling of a New Electron Acceleration Mechanism Ahead of Streamers


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dc.creatorIhaddadene, Keven
dc.creatorLiu, Ningyu
dc.creatorCelestin, Sebastien
dc.creatorShi, Feng
dc.creatorJoseph, Dwyer
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-01T20:44:14Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T20:44:14Z
dc.date.created2019
dc.identifier10.1029/2018JA026084en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JA026084en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50443
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-511
dc.description.abstractHead-on collisions between negative and positive streamers have been proposed as a mechanism behind X-ray emissions by laboratory spark discharges. Recent simulations using plasma fluid and particle in cell models of a single head-on collision of two streamers of opposite polarities in ground pressure air predicted an insignificant number of thermal runaway electrons >1 keV and hence weak undetectable X-ray emissions. Because the current available models of a single streamer collision failed to explain the observations, we first use a Monte Carlo model coupled with multiple static dielectric ellipsoids immersed in a subbreakdown ambient electric field as a description of multiple streamer environment and we investigate the ability of multiple streamer-streamer head-on collisions to accelerate runaway electrons >1 keV up to energies similar to 200-300 keV instead of just one single head-on collision. The results of simulations show that the streamer head-on collision mechanism fails to accelerate electrons; instead, they decelerate in the positive streamer channel. In a second part, we use a streamer plasma fluid model to simulate a new streamer-electron acceleration mechanism based on a collision of a large negative streamer with a small neutral plasma patch in different Laplacian electric fields vertical bar E-0 vertical bar = (35, 40, 45) kV/cm, respectively. We observe the formation of a secondary short propagating negative streamer with a strong peak electric field >250 up to 378 kV/cm over a time duration of similar to 0.16 ns at the moment of the collision. The mechanism produces up to 10(6) runaway electrons with an upper energy limit of 24 keV.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICSen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2169-9380en_US
dc.rights©American Geophysical Union 2019. This is this the version of record co-published by the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Ihaddadene, K. M., Dwyer, J. R., Liu, N., Celestin, S., & Shi, F. (2019). Modeling of a new electron acceleration mechanism ahead of streamers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(8), 7301-7319.en_US
dc.titleModeling of a New Electron Acceleration Mechanism Ahead of Streamersen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume124en_US
dc.citation.issue8en_US
dc.citation.spage7301en_US
dc.citation.epage7319en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-2220-3197en_US

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