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Evolution of the width of the wave packet of a charged particle interacting with a quantum electromagnetic field

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The path integral method is used to study the width of the wave packet of a relativistic charged particle interacting with a quantum electromagnetic field. A general expression is derived for the density distribution of a particle moving in arbitrary external potentials. An electron synchrotron with weak focusing is studied as a specific example, and the width of the wave packet of an electron moving in this accelerator is found.

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  1. G. I. Budker Nuclear Physics Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 111, 1563–1578 (May 1997)

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Faleev, S.V. Evolution of the width of the wave packet of a charged particle interacting with a quantum electromagnetic field. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 84, 856–863 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558223

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