Time series analysis of Coulomb collisions in a beam dynamics simulation

In this paper, a time series analysis of collisional effects in a numerical simulation of a coasting beam transverse dynamics is presented. The simulation performs a numerical integration of the Hamilton's equations of a two-dimensional system of particles, describing the transverse dynamics of the beam. Then, an analysis of the time series generated has been applied in order to describe the dynamics of the system by means of the mean field equations, with the addition of a stochastic process in order to model Coulomb collisions.