Canonical transformation for trapped/passing guiding-center orbits in axisymmetric tokamak geometry

Abstract

The generating function for the canonical transformation from the parallel canonical coordinates $(p_{\Vert },s)$ to the action-angle coordinates $(J,\zeta )$ for trapped/passing guiding-center orbits in axisymmetric tokamak geometry is presented. Drawing on the analogy between the phase-space portraits of the librating/rotating pendulum and the trapped/passing guiding-center orbits, the generating function is expressed in terms of the Jacobi zeta function, which can then readily be used to obtain an explicit expression for the bounce-center transformation for trapped/passing-particles in axisymmetric tokamak geometry.

7 pages, 3 figures

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