Adiabatic damping of geometric emittance

ID: adiabatic-damping-of-geometric-emittance

For slowly accelerated paraxial motion, decreases as longitudinal momentum grows while transverse canonical phase-space area is conserved. The normalized emittance stays constant in the ideal limit, so the geometric emittance scales inversely with longitudinal momentum. This is kinematic damping rather than dissipation of canonical area.

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