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Particle Acceleration by an Electromagnetic Wave

Author(s) -

H. Dehnen

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

isrn high energy physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-7427

pISSN - 2090-7419

DOI - 10.1155/2013/760983

Subject(s) - physics , particle acceleration , pulsar , acceleration , electromagnetic radiation , charged particle , plane wave , computational physics , cosmic ray , radiation , point particle , particle (ecology) , relativistic particle , classical mechanics , quantum electrodynamics , electron , optics , astrophysics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , ion , oceanography , geology

The relativistic equation of motion for an electrically charged massive point particle is integrated exactly for the case of a circularly polarized electromagnetic plane wave. The acceleration of the particle by the wave is calculated in detail, however, under neglection of the radiation damping. In spite of this simplification, the results are applied to a typical pulsar, where the maximum kinetic energy of accelerated protons reaches values of the order of the fastest cosmic ray particles.

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