New data on space and time scales of relativistic runaway electron avalanche for thunderstorm environment: Monte Carlo calculations

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 245, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 460-470

  Babich, L P ^a   Kutsyk, I M ^a   Donskoy, E N ^a   Kudryavtsev, A Yu ^a  

^a RUSSIAN FEDERAL NUCLEAR CENTER VNIIEF   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Monte Carlo; Relativistic; Runaway electron; Thundercloud

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); COSMOLOGY; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THUNDERSTORMS;

AVALANCHE MULTIPLICATION; ELEMENTARY INTERACTIONS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; RELATIVISTIC; RELATIVISTIC RUNAWAY ELECTRON; RUNAWAY ELECTRONS; THUNDERCLOUD; THUNDERSTORM CLOUDS;

SPACE TIME CODES;

EID: 0001455736     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00268-0     Document Type: Article

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