A symmetry analysis is presented for the three-dimensional nonrelativistic motion of charged particles in arbitrary stationary electromagnetic fields. The general form of the Lie point symmetries is found along with the fields that respect them, considering non-trivial cases of physical interest. The restrictions placed upon the electromagnetic field yield five classes of solutions, expressed in terms of the vector and scalar potentials. The Noether type symmetries are also investigated and their corresponding invariants are found. A second integral of motion, besides the Hamiltonian, results in three general cases. Finally, a relation between the symmetries of the charged particle motion and the symmetries of the magnetic field lines is established.
An analytical description of magnetic islands is presented for the typical case of a single perturbation mode introduced to tokamak plasma equilibrium in the large aspect ratio approximation. Following the Hamiltonian structure directly in terms of toroidal coordinates, the well known integrability of this system is exploited, laying out a precise and practical way for determining the island topology features, as required in various applications, through an analytical and exact flux surface label.
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