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Solar Energetic Particles

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The structure of the Sun, with its energy generation and heating, creates convection and differential rotation of the outer solar plasma. This convection and rotation generates the solar magnetic field. The field and its variations spawn all of the solar activity: solar active regions, flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Solar activity provides the origin and environment for both the impulsive and gradual solar energetic particle (SEP) events. This chapter introduces the background environment and some basic properties of SEP events, time durations, abundances, and solar cycle variations.

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We thank the SOHO and SDO projects for figures used in this chapter.

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Reames, D.V. (2017). Introduction. In: Solar Energetic Particles. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 932. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50871-9_1

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