High Energy Particles in the Solar Corona

TL;DR

This paper explores how magnetic flux tubes and vortex structures in the solar corona facilitate both steady low-energy nuclear reactions and high-energy particle interactions during explosive solar events, based on electromagnetic laws.

Contribution

It introduces a model linking magnetic flux tube vortices to energy scales of solar nuclear and particle reactions, emphasizing electromagnetic interactions in the corona.

Findings

Magnetic flux tubes act as vortices with current loops.

Steady low-energy nuclear reactions occur within flux tubes.

Violent flux tube explosions trigger high-energy particle interactions.

Abstract

Collective Ampere law interactions producing magnetic flux tubes piercing through sunspots into and then out of the solar corona allow for low energy nuclear reactions in a steady state and high energy particle reactions if a magnetic flux tube explodes in a violent event such as a solar flare. Filamentous flux tubes themselves are vortices of Ampere currents circulating around in a tornado fashion in a roughly cylindrical geometry. The magnetic field lines are parallel to and largely confined within the core of the vortex. The vortices may thereby be viewed as long current carrying coils surrounding magnetic flux and subject to inductive Faraday and Ampere laws. These laws set the energy scales of (i) low energy solar nuclear reactions which may regularly occur and (ii) high energy electro-weak interactions which occur when magnetic flux coils explode into violent episodic events such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections.