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Radiation reaction on a classical charged particle: a modified form of the equation of motion
Guillermo García Alcaine1, Felipe J Llanes-Estrada
1Departamento de Física Teórica I, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
We present and numerically solve a modified form of the equation of motion for a charged particle under the influence of an external force, taking into account the radiation reaction. This covariant equation is integro-differential, as Dirac-Röhrlich's, but has several technical improvements. First, the equation has the form of Newton's second law, with acceleration isolated on the left hand side and the force depending only on positions and velocities: Thus, the equation is linear in the highest derivative. Second, the total four-force is by construction perpendicular to the four-velocity. Third, if the external force vanishes for all future times, the total force and the acceleration automatically vanish at the present time. We show the advantages of this equation by solving it numerically for several examples of external force.
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