Solution

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In cylindrical coordinates,
The screw transformation
leaves and fixed, so it is the helical symmetry of a potential. Its infinitesimal generator has and . Noether's theorem therefore gives the conserved quantity
This is a linear combination of axial linear momentum and axial angular momentum.

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