The Motion of a Charged Particle Near a Zero Field Point (open access)

The Motion of a Charged Particle Near a Zero Field Point

"The behavior of charged particles in a plasma-free cusp field, or in a cusp field where there is very little plasma, is studied. The numerical computations described may provide a valid picture of the behavior of particles outside such a body of plasma or in the early stages of creation of such a cusped plasma in the low- beta limit. The computations provide a striking illustration of orbits which neither have constant magnetic moment nor behave so irregularly as to defy explanation."
Date: July 15, 1961
Creator: van Norton, Roger
System: The UNT Digital Library