Physics – Accelerator Physics
Scientific paper
1998-03-25
Physics
Accelerator Physics
Plain LaTeX, 12 pages, no figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on "Quantum Aspects of Beam Dyna
Scientific paper
A recent proposal (see quant-ph/9803068) to simulate semiclassical corrections to classical dynamics by suitable classical stochastic fluctuations is applied to the specific instance of charged beam dynamics in particle accelerators. The resulting picture is that the collective beam dynamics, at the leading semiclassical order in Planck constant can be described by a particular diffusion process, the Nelson process, which is time-reversal invariant. Its diffusion coefficient $\sqrt{N}\lambda_{c}$ represents a semiclassical unit of emittance (here $N$ is the number of particles in the beam, and $\lambda_{c}$ is the Compton wavelength). The stochastic dynamics of the Nelson type can be easily recast in the form of a Schroedinger equation, with the semiclassical unit of emittance replacing Planck constant. Therefore we provide a physical foundation to the several quantum-like models of beam dynamics proposed in recent years. We also briefly touch upon applications of the Nelson and Schroedinger formalisms to incorporate the description of collective coherent effects.
de Martino Salvatore
Illuminati Fabrizio
Siena Silvio de
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