Shock wave surfing acceleration
Plasma Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Dynamics of a charged relativistic particle in a uniform magnetic field and an obliquely propagating electrostatic shock wave is considered. The system is reduced to a two degrees of freedom Hamiltonian system with slow and fast variables. In this system, the phenomenon of capture into resonance can take place. Under certain condition, a captured phase point stays captured forever. This corresponds to unlimited surfing acceleration of the particle. The preprint is a more detailed version of a comment on the paper by D.Ucer and V.D.Shapiro (Phys.Rev.Lett., vol. 87, 075001, 2001), intended for the Comments section of Physical Reviews Letters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0204018,
title = {Shock wave surfing acceleration},
author = {A. A. Vasiliev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0204018},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure