Question: 1 3 . 3 5 * * * * * A beam of particles is moving along an accelerator pipe in the z direction. The

13.35***** A beam of particles is moving along an accelerator pipe in the z direction. The particles are uniformly distributed in a cylindrical volume of length L0(in the z direction) and radius R0. The particles have momenta uniformly distributed with pz in an interval p0+-pz and the transverse momentum inside a circle of radius . To increase the particles' spatial density, the beam is focused by electric and magnetic fields, so that the radius shrinks to a smaller value R. What does Liouville's theorem tell you about the spread in the transverse momentum and the subsequent behavior of the radius R?(Assume that the focusing does not affect either L0 or p2.)

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