  We study the damping of collisionless Alfv\'enic turbulence by two
mechanisms: stochastic heating (whose efficiency depends on the local
turbulence amplitude $\delta z_\lambda$) and linear Landau damping (whose
efficiency is independent of $\delta z_\lambda$), describing in detail how they
affect and are affected by intermittency. The overall efficiency of linear
Landau damping is not affected by intermittency in critically balanced
turbulence, while stochastic heating is much more efficient in the presence of
intermittent turbulence. Moreover, stochastic heating leads to a drop in the
scale-dependent kurtosis over a narrow range of scales around the ion
gyroscale.
