Department of Physics and Astronomy

2020 Dissertation Award: Dr. Lukas Merten

April 20, 2021 | Dissertation Award

Anisotropic Transport of Galactic Cosmic Rays based on Stochastic Differential Equations

In his PhD thesis, Mr. Merten has introduced a new method - the stochastic differential equations - in the field of galactic transport of cosmic rays, which allows to perform solutions of the transport equation in the same simulation environment as the non-diffusive single particle propagation of cosmic rays at the highest energies. First applications of the method in the field of intragalactic propagation and transport from the termination shock back to the Milky Way provide new research results, which are already intensively discussed in the scientific community.

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