NIU PHYS 671 - Radiation from accelerating charges 1

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P. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Radiation from accelerating charges 1• We now concentrate in computing the radiated power by an accelerated charge. • From the Poynting vector definition, the radiated power per unit of surface area is:•So • From now on we will only consider radiation detected at very large R, this is the far field approximation. Only the second term (that involves the acceleration) is kept in the E, B fields associated to the Lienard-Wiechert potential.P. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Radiation from accelerating charges 2• From , the instantaneous power radiated at time t’ per unit solid angle dΩis• In the far field approximation we have• Let consider n,EP. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Radiated power per unit of time• So finally• and•…P. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Radiated energy per unit of time• If we want to know dP(t)/dt, the power radiated per unit solid angle at time t it arrived at the enveloping surface, then we must trace back to the proper retarded time• Note also that , so if a particle is suddenly accelerated for a time ∆t’=τ, an observer will see a light pulse at time t=R/c with a duration • Energy is conserved: total energy radiated = total energy lost by the particle.• The fact that implied that energy radiated per unit of time is κrettimes the energy lost by the particle in the far field per unit of time.P. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Instantaneous rate of radiation 1•Hgf• Work out the integrant• From we getP. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Instantaneous rate of radiation 2•So• Recall and define the integrals • So the power isP. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Instantaneous rate of radiation 3• We finally have• The last line is the relativistic generalization of Larmor’s formula; to recover the Larmor formula just take the limit β→0.P. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Power radiated in linear accelerators 1• In linear accelerators• We need to evaluate the acceleration. Start from the momentum • Thus the radiated power is Lighter particles are subject to higher lossP. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Power radiated in linear accelerators 2• One important question is how does the emission of radiation influence the charge particle dynamics. • The accelerator induce a momentum change of the form(where we assumed the acceleration is along the z-axis)• Let be the power associated to the external force. The particle dynamics is affected when Pextis comparable to the radiated power:P. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Power radiated in linear accelerators 3• Consider a relativistic electron then•…..• So the effect seems to be negligible. • This is actually part of the story some coherent effect can kick in an induce some distortion when considering highly charged electron bunches for instance…P. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Power radiated in circular accelerators 1• Now and • The radiated power is where E is the energy. Let’s introduce• So radiative energy loss per turn isP. Piot, PHYS 571 – Fall 2007Power radiated in circular accelerators 2• That is • For an e- synchrotron this becomes•TakeE=1 TeV, R=2 km we have• Conclusion bad idea to build circular accelerator for HEP but good as copious radiation sources (e.g. APS in


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