Quantum excitation (accelerator physics)

Quantum excitation is the effect in circular accelerators or storage rings whereby the discreteness of photon emission causes the charged particles (typically electrons) to undergo a random walk or diffusion process.

Mechanism

An electron moving through a magnetic field emits radiation. The expected amount of radiation can be calculated using the classical power. Considering quantum mechanics, however, this radiation is emitted in discrete packets of photons. For this description, the distribution of number of emitted photons and also the energy spectrum for the electron should be determined instead.

In particular, the spectrum of a bending magnet is given by

S(\xi )={\frac {9{\sqrt {3}}}{8\pi }}\xi \int _{0}^{\infty }K_{5/3}({\bar {\xi }})d{\bar {\xi }}

The diffusion coefficient is given by

d={\dot {N}}\langle u^{2}\rangle

The result is

d={\frac {55}{24{\sqrt {3}}}}\alpha {\frac {\hbar }{mc}}{\frac {\gamma ^{5}}{|\rho |^{3}}}

References

↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 11, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2014. The Physics of Electron Storage Rings: An Introduction by Matt Sands

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Quantum excitation (accelerator physics)

Mechanism

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