The Screened Field of a Test Particle

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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 This paper is based on unpublished material from my MSc thesis, supervised by the late Dr K. C. Hines.

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Publication date Created: 2009-12-21

Publication date Updated: 2011-07-30

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DOI: 10.1142/9789814293662_0004

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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

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