The field of a test body in a flux of charged particles
Abstract
It is shown that the field potential created by test bodies in a relativistic flux of charged particles contains, in addition to a part that is rapidly diminishing in response to Debye shielding, an oscillating constituent. Slowly diminishing with distance, this constituent is associated with the magnetic interaction of the currents. An exact analytical solution is found to the problem concerning the field set up by the charged current-carrying filament in a plasma having a Bennet profile. The long-range field of interaction of the charges with the current-carrying filament and of individual filaments interacting with one another makes possible a better understanding of the separation of the plasma in channels of strong current into individual bundles.
- Publication:
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Zhurnal Eksperimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- November 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982ZhETF..83.1756M
- Keywords:
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- Charged Particles;
- Cylindrical Plasmas;
- Particle Flux Density;
- Plasma Currents;
- Plasma Potentials;
- Charge Distribution;
- Debye Length;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Potential Fields;
- Plasma Physics