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  "abstract": "Cosmic rays (CRs) escaping collisionless shocks form a dilute, relativistic population whose current amplifies the upstream magnetic field, a process widely attributed to the non-resonant (Bell) instability. Solving the dispersion relation for both cold and finite-spread CR distributions, we show that for the maximum-energy escaping population, the resonant mode can outgrow the non-resonant mode. At slower shocks, this dominance persists for broader CR distributions, and sufficient pitch-angle broadening can even stabilize the non-resonant mode while leaving the resonant mode unstable. Relativistic hybrid particle-in-cell simulations confirm the cold-beam linear theory predictions and, in the nonlinear regime, saturate at $δB/B_0 \\sim 1$ with significant pitch-angle redistribution. Neglecting the resonant instability thus underestimates magnetic field growth at the very scale needed to confine the highest-energy escaping CRs.",
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    {
      "name": "Bricker Ostler"
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    {
      "name": "Benedikt Schroer"
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    {
      "name": "Damiano Caprioli"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.22480",
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  "published": "2026-09-18",
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  "title": "Importance of the Resonant Cosmic-Ray Streaming Instability Upstream of Collisionless Shocks",
  "title_text": "Importance of the Resonant Cosmic-Ray Streaming Instability Upstream of Collisionless Shocks",
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