The Screened Field of a Test Particle

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 This paper is based on unpublished material from my MSc thesis, supervised by the late Dr K. C. Hines.

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 Φin Eq.(2.5). See also arXiv 1107.5201