Published 1985 | Version v1
Journal article

Microscopic irreversibility and radiation in a collision between two charged particles

  • 1. Centro di Studio per la Chimica dei Plasmi, Universita di Bari (Italy)
  • 2. Centre de Physique de l'Irreversibilite, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, 75 (France)

Description

Two-electron collisions are studied while taking into account the propagation delay of electromagnetic fields. The method used here is an expansion in powers of v/c in the relativistic equations of motion (Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation). One stresses the impact which the deviation from the hamiltonian behaviour could bear upon the microscopic explanation of thermodynamic irreversibility

Abstract (French)

Il s'agit d'une etude detaillee du choc de deux electrons en tenant compte du retard de propagation des champs electromagnetiques. La methode employee consiste a faire un developpement en v/c dans les equations relativistes completes du mouvement (equation de Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac). On insists sur l'incidence que la perte d'energie mecanique due au caractere non hamiltonien d'un tel mouvement pourrait avoir dans l'explication microscopique de l'irreversibilite thermodynamique

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (French)
Irreversibilite microscopique et rayonnement lors d'un choc entre particules chargees

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Ann. Fond. Louis de Broglie
Journal Volume
10
Journal Issue
2
Series
Ann. Fond. Louis de Broglie.
Journal Page Range
103-123
ISSN
0182-4295
CODEN
AFLBD

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