Proton acceleration by circularly polarized traveling electromagnetic wave
Accelerator Physics
2015-06-04 v1
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.
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@article{arxiv.1203.0110,
title = {Proton acceleration by circularly polarized traveling electromagnetic wave},
author = {A. Holkundkar and G. Brodin and M. Marklund},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0110},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 9 figures