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    Natural and Laboratory Plasmas II - Example Sheet 1: (Z) B (1+ (Z/L) ) - How

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    Natural and Laboratory Plasmas II – Example sheet 1

    Orbit Theory and Radiation from a Charged Particle


    May 2004 (some errors corrected)

    DATA

    Electron mass me = 9.11  10-31 kg


    Proton mass mp = 1.673  10-27 kg
    Speed of light c = 2.998  108 ms-1
    Elementary charge e = 1.602 10-19 C
    Boltzmann constant kB = 1.381  10-23 J K-1
    Earth Mass M = 5.794  1024 kg
    Earth Radius R = 6.731  106 m

    1. Calculate the Larmor radius, rL, of


    - an electron travelling at 0.6c, with pitch angle 25o, in a coronal magnetic field of 10-3 T
    - an alpha particle in a tokamak plasma with temperature 10 6K and B = 8T (here, calculate
    the maximum value of rL)
    - a 10keV electron in the Earth’s magnetic field at a distance of 5R  above its surface (R is
    the Earth’s radius). Assume that the equatorial field strength at the Earth’s surface is 3 
    10-5 T.

    2. Show that the gravitational force on a 1eV proton in the Earth’s ionosphere (which extends from
    about 50km above the Earth to 10 R) is negligible compared to the Lorentz force it experiences. You
    may use the value of the Earth’s magnetic field from question (1).

    3. A particle with charge q is emitted from the origin with momentum p, directed at angle  to a
    uniform magnetic field B which lies in the z-direction. At what point does the particle next intersect
    the z-axis?

    4. Calculate the loss-cone angle for charged particles at the midpoint of a symmetric magnetic bottle of
    length L, with longitudinal magnetic field strength Bz which varying as Bz(z) = Bo(1+(z/L)2). How
    does the loss-cone angle vary with position along the bottle?

    5. Show that the magnetic field at the mirror point for a particle with speed v is
    2
     v 
    B m  B ( z ) 
    v ( z ) 
    where v(z) is the perpendicular speed of the particle at position z, and B(z) is the z-component of the
    magnetic field at this position. Hence, show that – in the field structure given above – the time, ,
    taken for a trapped particle on the z-axis to bounce between its two mirror points at z = L and z = -L
    is

    2L
     
    v
    6. A column of electrons has density ne = 1010m-3, and radius a = 103 cm. It is confined by a 0.1T
    magnetic field, with B in the positive z-direction. Use Poisson’s equation to work out the electrostatic
    field due to the electrons, and hence the magnitude and direction of the EB drift at r = a.

    If the electrons are flowing along the column at uniform speed, how will the EB drift change?

    7. Suppose that a region of free space has a magnetic field B  B ( r )eˆ  , where  is the azimuthal
    direction. Show that the guiding centre of a gyrating charged particle of mass m and charge q has a
    combination of curvature and gradient drifts given by

    m RC  B  2 1 2 
    v gc   v ||  v  
    q R C2 B 2  2 

    where Rc is the radius of curvature of the field lines, and v||, v are the parallel and perpendicular
    components of the particle velocity.

    8. Show for a relativistic accelerating particle, with collinear velocity and acceleration vectors that the
    angle to these vectors at which the peak power is radiated is given by

    cos  max 
    1
    3
    
    1  15 2  1/ 2

    1

    where  = v/c

    9. Prove that

    d 
    R 
    ˆ  R
    ˆ     1
    Rˆ  Rˆ      
     
    dt' 
      
     2

    where R̂ is a unit vector.

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