Monte Carlo model for analysis of thermal runaway electrons in streamer tips in transient luminous events and streamer zones of lightning leaders

By G. D. Moss, V. Pasko, Ningyu Liu, Georgios Veronis. 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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The physics of lightning (2014, background): “[176] and Celestin and Pasko [255], who modeled the creation of thermal runaway electrons by streamers, showing that significant runaway electron production is plausible.”
The physics of streamer discharge phenomena (2020, background): “Electron runaway from negative streamers has been modeled in simulations [49, 50, 200] as well, though the electric potential available at the streamer head limited the electron energies to a few keV.”
Red sprite discharges in the atmosphere at high altitude: the molecular physics and the similarity with laboratory discharges (2007, methodology): “In particular, figure 7 illustrates the distribution of excitation frequencies for several electronic states of N2 and N2 of interest in sprite studies (see table 1) as a function of reduced electric field, which were used in recent modelling studies of sprite streamers [44, 62, 88, 90].”
Review of recent results on streamer discharges and discussion of their relevance for sprites and lightning (2010, methodology): “Recent progress in the development of simulation methods and in the evaluation of results by Moss et al. [2006] , C. Li et al. [2007, 2008a, 2008b, 2009, 2010], and Chanrion and Neubert [2008, 2010] is discussed in section 3.4.1.”
Source mechanisms of terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes (2008, background): “For the cold runaway electron mechanism, when the electric field exceeds the critical field, Ec � 30 MV/m � (n/no), about ten times larger than the breakdown field, free thermal electrons may gain sufficient energy to run away [Gurevich, 1961; Moss et al., 2006 ].”
Energy and fluxes of thermal runaway electrons produced by exponential growth of streamers during the stepping of lightning leaders and in transient luminous events (2011, methodology): “Thus, one sees that electrons with energy calculated for streamers without accounting for their exponential growth, that is ∼2 keV [Moss et al., 2006], cannot become runaway electrons in this system and will be unable to gain much energy.”
Lightning mapping observation of a terrestrial gamma‐ray flash (2010, background): “The production of high energy photons from leader propagation is qualitatively consistent with theory [Moss et al., 2006; Dwyer, 2008] and ground observations [Moore et al.”
Recent advances in theory of transient luminous events (2010, methodology): “analysis presented byMoss et al. [2006] indicate existence of direct acceleration of thermal (i.”
High-Energy Atmospheric Physics: Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Related Phenomena (2012, methodology): “Later, Moss et al. (2006) modeled the thermal runaway electron production by streamers, and showed that significant runaway electron production was plausible.”
Lightning Related Transient Luminous Events at High Altitude in the Earth’s Atmosphere: Phenomenology, Mechanisms and Effects (2012, background): “…et al. (2009) for negative gigantic jet discharge would lead to the very high field >1.5 × 5.5Ek 8Ek approaching or exceeding magnitudes for which thermal electron runaway process becomes possible (e.g., Moss et al. 2006; Li et al. 2009; Chanrion and Neubert 2008, 2010; Celestin and Pasko 2011).”