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Papadopoulos et al. 1980
Papadopoulos, K., Gaffey, J.D. and Palmadesso, P.J. (1980). Stochastic acceleration of large M/Q ions by hydrogen cyclotron waves in the magnetosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 7: doi: 10.1029/GL007i011p01014. issn: 0094-8276.

It is shown that in hydrogen dominated multi-ion plasmas supporting coherent hydrogen cyclotron waves, the minority ion species with large M/Q are preferentially accelerated and the maximum energy achieved scales as (M/MH+)5/3. The importance of this scaling to O+ acceleration in the auroral zones and to other high energy heavy ion observations in the earth's and Jupiter's mangetospheres is discussed.

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