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Confinement times in quasi-trapping orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

D. C. Scheetz  and
R. W. Flynn
D. C. Scheetz
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620
R. W. Flynn
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620
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Abstract

Baker proposed a method of injecting charged particles into a static magnetic field such that particles on these ‘trapping orbits’ never return to the vicinity of the injector and remain permanently trapped. Their infinite confinement time requires that their energy, Eo, be specified with infinite precision. When the energy differs from this by a small amount, E, the particle escapes after a finite confinement time, of the order of In (Eo/E) cyclotron periods.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , October 1978 , pp. 161 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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