Uniform derivation of Coulomb collisional transport thanks to Debye shielding
Abstract
The effective potential acting on particles in plasmas being essentially the Debye-shielded Coulomb potential, the particles collisional transport in thermal equilibrium is calculated for all impact parameters b, with a convergent expression reducing to Rutherford scattering for small b. No cutoff at the Debye length scale is needed, and the Coulomb logarithm is only slightly modified.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1404.7797
- Bibcode:
- 2015JPlPh..81a3001E
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Plasma Physics
- E-Print:
- arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.1546, arXiv:1310.3096