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Orbit and spin tracking in a radial electric field

Accelerator Physics 2014-03-21 v1

Abstract

I derive an expression for the spin decoherence rate for a smooth focusing electrostatic ring with a radial electric field. The answer contains some salutary lessons about spin decoherence calculations in electrostatic storage rings: the numerical tracking results disagreed with naive analytical calculations, but it was the tracking results which were correct, and more careful analytical calculations (canonical transformations) were required.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5023,
  title  = {Orbit and spin tracking in a radial electric field},
  author = {S R Mane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5023},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure