Observation of deuteron acceleration in a collision of magnetosonic shock waves in a plasma
Dudkin G. N., Lukanin A. A., Nechaev B. A., Peshkov A. V., Ryzhkov V. A.
An acceleration of deuterons has been observed experimentally during the collision of two quasiperpendicular magnetosonic shock waves at a fixed angle. Possible mechanisms for an injection of ions into a regime of acceleration along the magnetic field are analyzed.