The Screened Field of a Test Particle
Plasma Physics
2016-12-21 v3
Abstract
The screened field (forward field and wake) of a test particle moving at constant velocity through an unmagnetized collisionless plasma is calculated analytically and numerically. This paper is based on unpublished material from my MSc thesis, supervised by the late Dr K. C. Hines.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.4148,
title = {The Screened Field of a Test Particle},
author = {R. L. Dewar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4148},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
27 pp, 14 fig Publ "In Celeb Of KC Hines," www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7604.html. Based on Chs 2 & 3 of "Particle-field interactions in a plasma," RL Dewar, MSc Thesis, U Melbourne '67. v2: $\sin\psi$ and $\cos\psi$ interchanged after Eq. (4.1); v3: typos corrected pp 3, 4, 5, 19, in partic. repl. $q$ by $q/\epsilon_0$ & putting hat on k in arg. of \Phi in Eq.(2.5). See also arXiv 1107.5201