ON STABILITY OF THE ELLIPTIC ORBITS OF DIAMAGNETIC POSITRONIUM

Authors
DIALYNAS TE FLORATOS EG
Citation
Te. Dialynas et Eg. Floratos, ON STABILITY OF THE ELLIPTIC ORBITS OF DIAMAGNETIC POSITRONIUM, Physics letters. A, 228(6), 1997, pp. 363-368
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
228
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
363 - 368
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1997)228:6<363:OSOTEO>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The stability of the elliptical orbits of diamagnetic positronium is s tudied and it is found to depend only on the eccentricity epsilon and the combination of parameters lambda=B(2)r(0c)(3) (where B is the magn etic field strength and r(0c) the conserved guiding center). For small and large values of lambda the orbits remain stable while at approxim ately lambda=1 unstable behavior appears when the eccentricity becomes larger than epsilon=0.25. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.