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Electron beam transport in the presence of a strong, axial magnetic field
Author(s) -
Kuperman Vadim Y.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.1418017
Subject(s) - electron , physics , magnetic field , cathode ray , space (punctuation) , distribution function , computational physics , fermi gamma ray space telescope , beam (structure) , field (mathematics) , atomic physics , quantum electrodynamics , condensed matter physics , quantum mechanics , optics , mathematics , philosophy , linguistics , pure mathematics
An analytical model is presented that describes the effects of an applied longitudinal magnetic field and energy loss on the transport of relativistic electrons in a medium. By using a modified Fermi equation we derive analytical solutions for the distribution function of electrons. The obtained results can be used to predict the influence of longitudinal magnetic fields on the lateral spread of electrons in both coordinate space and velocity space.