Published October 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Chaotic scattering and acceleration of particles by waves

  • 1. Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 (United States)

Description

Relativistic charged particles in a uniform magnetic field and traveling waves of large amplitude can be accelerated limitlessly. Since much of phase space is chaotic the process can be viewed as chaotic scattering on waves. For multiple waves an explicit map arises with unusual properties. It contains infinite island chains around nonperiodic orbits and it is also an example of transient chaos in a Hamiltonian system

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.)
Journal Volume
3
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 525-528.
ISSN
1054-1500
CODEN
CHAOEH

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
25041163
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATION; CHARGED PARTICLES; HAMILTONIAN FUNCTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE SPACE; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SCATTERING; TRAVELLING WAVES
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY RANGE; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SPACE