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Proton acceleration by circularly polarized traveling electromagnetic wave
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The acceleration of charged particles, producing collimated mono-energetic beams, over short distances holds the promise to offer new tools in medicine and diagnostics. Here, we consider a possible mechanism for accelerating protons to high energies by using a phase-modulated circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating along a constant magnetic field. It is observed that a plane wave with dimensionless amplitude of 0.1 is capable to accelerate a 1 KeV proton to 386 MeV under optimum conditions. Finally we discuss possible limitations of the acceleration scheme.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 9 figures
- Subjects :
- Physics - Accelerator Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1203.0110
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.091301