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The description of charged particle motion in a magnetic field is more complicated than magnetic field lines. It is related with the fact that a charged particle orbit gyrates around the magnetic field while moving freely close its direction as illustrated in Fig. 4.1.
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A more detailed discussion of this problem is given by Arnold (1963b) and in the book by Arnold et al. (2006) (Sect. 6.4, page 314).
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Abdullaev, S. (2014). Hamilton Equations for Guiding Center Motion of Particles. In: Magnetic Stochasticity in Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01890-4_4
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