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Journal of Modern Physics, 2011, 2, 162-173 doi:10.4236/jmp.2011.23025 Published Online March 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jmp) Scattering and Transformation of Waves on Heavy Particles in Magnetized Plasma Hrachya B. Nersisyan, Hrant H. Matevosyan Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Ashtarak, Armenia E-mail : hrachya@irphe.am Received November 2, 2010; revised January 3, 2011; accepted January 5, 2011 Abstract The scattering and transformation of the waves propagating in magnetized plasma on a heavy stationary charged particle located at a plane plasma-vacuum boundary is considered. The scattering (transformation) occurs due to the nonlinear coupling of the incident wave with the polarization (shielding) cloud surrounding the particle. It is shown that the problem is reduced to the determination of the nonlinear (three index) di- electric tensor of magnetized plasma. The angular distribution and the cross section for scattering (transfor- mation) of high-frequency ordinary and extraordinary waves and low-frequency upper-hybrid, low-hybrid, and magnetosonic waves are investigated within a cold plasma (hydrodynamic) model. Keywords: Scattering, Transformation, Plasma Modes, Magnetized Plasmas 1. Introduction individual plasma components. The phenomenon of electromagnetic wave combination scattering by collec- It is well known that in a medium with a certain fluctua- tive plasma excitations has been considered for the first tion level, the propagation of electromagnetic waves can time by Akhiezer et al. (see, e.