Entropy (Oct 2022)

Extreme Electron Acceleration with Fixed Radiation Energy

  • Michael R. R. Good,
  • Chiranjeeb Singha,
  • Vasilios Zarikas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e24111570
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 11
p. 1570

Abstract

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We examine the extreme situation of radiation from an electron that is asymptotically accelerated to the speed of light, resulting in finite emission energy. The analytic solution explicitly demonstrates the difference between radiation power loss and kinetic power loss (null).

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