A novel effect of fast heating and charging a finite-radius plasma is
discovered in the context of plasma wakefield acceleration. As the plasma wave
breaks, the most of its energy is transferred to plasma electrons which create
strong charge-separation electric field and azimuthal magnetic field around the
plasma. The slowly varying field structure is preserved for hundreds of
wakefield periods and contains (together with hot electrons) up to 80% of the
initial wakefield energy.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure