Perpendicular diffusion of energetic particles in axi-symmetric magnetic turbulence
The quasi-linear method for finding how the diffusion tensor of energetic
particles depends on the power spectrum of non-slab magnetic fluctuations is
proving to be very tedious. It is clear that both parallel and perpendicular
diffusion result from turbulent power at families of nearly discrete values of
the k-vector, all over k-space. However, the grand picture sought from the basic
quasi-linear equation relating the anisotropy of the distribution function to the
magnetic power spectrum and the spatial gradient is still buried somewhere in the
algebra and path integrals. Some intermediate results will be presented.