scholarly journals MOVEMENT OF A RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON IN CROSSED ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS

Doklady BGUIR ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
A. A. Kurayev ◽  
V. V. Matveyenka

It is shown that the ideas about the electron motion into electric and magnetic crossed fields existing in the modern literature are incorrected. For relativistic velocity case the electron motion can't be imagined by the superposition of the drift with velocity u = E0/B0 and the rotation with frequency  = eB0/m (e, m is charge and mass of relativistic electron). In the relativistic case these motions are not separated, moreover the instantaneous rotation frequency  of relativistic electron is unstable for fixed coordinate system (E0, B0):  depends on m, which varies considerably during rotation.

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gedalin ◽  
M. A. Balikhin

Abstract. We study the collisionless dynamics of electrons in the shock ramp using the numerical trajectory analysis in the model electric and magnetic fields of the shock. Even with very modest assumptions about the cross-shock potential the electron trajectories are very sensitive to the width of the ramp. The character of electron motion changes from the fully adiabatic (with conservation of v2<perp>  /B) when the ramp is wide, to the nonadiabatic one, when the ramp becomes sufficiently narrow. The downstream electron distribution also changes drastically, although this change depends on the initial electron temperature.


1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 557 ◽  
Author(s):  
KF Ness

A multi-term solution of the Boltzmann equation is used to calculate the spatially homogeneous velocity distribution function of a dilute swarm of electrons moving through a background of denser neutral molecules in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. As an example, electron motion in methane is considered.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Rosenthal ◽  
M. Carter ◽  
S. Hampton ◽  
T. Mays

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Anthony B. Miller ◽  
Lois M. Green

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