title: An exact magnetic-moment invariant of charged-particle gyromotion.
abstract: For the motion of a charged particle in a uniform, time-dependent axial magnetic field B(t)e(z), it is shown that there is an exact magnetic-moment invariant of the particle dynamics M, to which the adiabatic magnetic-moment invariant mu = mv2 perpendicular/2B is asymptotic when the time scale of the magnetic field variation is much slower than the gyroperiod. The connection between the exact invariant M and the adiabatic invariant mu enables us to characterize in detail the robustness of the adiabatic magnetic-moment invariant mu.
authors.affiliation: Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Ronald C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Davidson