Published March 9, 1992
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Journal article
Unlimited particle acceleration by waves in a magnetic field
Creators
- 1. Laboratory for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 (United States)
- 2. Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow 117810 (USSR)
Description
A general description is given to the unlimited acceleration of charged particles by a wave in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. The wave can have an arbitrary mixture of electrostatic and electromagnetic components and the propagation direction in the magnetic field is also arbitrary. Exact limits on parameters for trapping and acceleration are derived. The probability of trapping in a gyration period is also presented, and it is shown that a particle once trapped remains so and undergoes unlimited acceleration
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 68
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 1507-1510
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23081504
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HAMILTONIANS; LORENTZ GROUPS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE SPACE; PLASMA WAVES; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; PULSARS; TRANSMISSION; TRAPPING; WAVE PROPAGATION
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; POINCARE GROUPS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; RADIATIONS; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS