Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
The nonrelativistic guiding center motion of a charged particle in a static magnetic field is derived using the Hamiltonian formalism. By repeated application of first-order canonical perturbation theory, the first two adiabatic invariants and their averaged Hamiltonians are obtained, including the first-order correction terms. Other features of guiding center theory are also given, including lowest order drifts and the flux invariant.
Keywords:
PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND NUCLEAR
Type:
NASA-TM-X-65700
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X-641-71-373
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NASA-TM-X-65458
,
X-641-71-56
Format:
application/pdf
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