Energy loss by slow magnetic monopoles in a thermal plasma

When the plasma in question is conductive and the monopole velocity is subthermal, the calculation of magnetic monopole deceleration in a thermal plasma taking the plasma's nonlocal dispersive properties into account yields smaller stopping power values for astrophysical plasmas than have been previously obtained. In the present treatment, plasma large scale magnetic field and nonlinearity are neglected, so that the transverse and longitudinal plasma dispersion properties decouple from each other.