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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION
1.1.Electric Field Acceleration
1.2.Fermi Acceleration
1.3.Stochastic Acceleration

2.TURBULENCE AND STOCHASTIC ACCELERATION
2.1.Basic Scenario
2.2.Dispersion Relations
2.3.Kinetic Equations and their Coefficients

3.PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES
3.1.Acceleration of Background Particles
3.2.Acceleration of Injected Particles

4.SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

APPENDIX: PARTICLE KINETIC EQUATIONS
A.1.Stochastic Acceleration by Turbulence
A.2.Acceleration in Large Scale Turbulence and Shocks

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