Diffusion Rate of Resonant Electron's at High Latitudes Diffusion Rate of Resonant Electron's at High Latitudes

ABSTRACT Diffusion rates are strongly dependent on the ratio between the electron plasma and gyro-frequencies. For conditions typical of storm times, diffusion rates are extremely sensitive to energy and become ineffective above 3 MeV. At energies below 100 keV pitch angle, diffusion approaches strong diffusion loss to the atmosphere, while loss at higher energies is much weaker. Resonant interaction between particles and waves violates the conservation of the magnetic moment and causes diffusion in energy and pitch angle of the interacting particles. If wave diffusion is weak then waves are not amplified to the extent as required but when diffusion is moderate and strong, we get intense waves at the receiver. These waves propagate from one hemisphere to another hemisphere crossing the geomagnetic equator bringing valuable information regarding particle distribution in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Kinds of observations as well as theoretical work done in the field support our result. In this paper, we compute diffusion's rate of electrons energy interacting with coherent/incoherent whistler mode VLF waves at high latitudes. Herein we extend the theory of Summers et al (2007)