论文标题
雷电作为能量质子的来源
Thunder-cell as Source of Energetic Protons
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论文摘要
在本文中，我们介绍了以下假设：雷电喷射高能质子，每种质子都会产生弱离子化轨迹的树结构，这些轨迹可以发展成闪电通道。树结构和通道具有相同的几何形状，因此质子的平均自由路径对应于两个连续节点之间的通道的平均长度（分支点）。我们在低地球大气中显示了这一长度约为660 m。库仑相互作用的影响和质子核反应的各种结果都考虑在内。随后的CG/CC比率的预测与可用数据非常吻合，但是只有闪电几何形状的测量值才能揭示该假设是否更接近现象的正确解释。
In this article we present the following hypothesis: thunder-cell ejects highly energetic protons, each of which creates a tree-structure of weakly ionized trajectories that can develop into a lightning channel. The tree-structure and the channel have the same geometry so the mean free path of a proton corresponds to the average length of the channel between two successive nodes (branching points). We show this length is around 660 m in lower Earth atmosphere. Effects of Coulomb interaction and various outcomes of proton-nucleus reaction are taken into account. A prediction of CG/CC ratio that follows agrees well with the available data, but only measurements of lightning geometry can reveal whether the hypothesis is any closer to the correct explanation of the phenomenon.
