Conductivity of a Relativistic Plasma
plasm-ph
2008-02-03 v2 Plasma Physics
Abstract
The collision operator for a relativistic plasma is reformulated in terms of an expansion in spherical harmonics. In this formulation the collision operator is expressed in terms of five scalar potentials which are given by one-dimensional integrals over the distribution function. This formulation is used to calculate the electrical conductivity of a uniform electron-ion plasma with infinitely massive ions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.plasm-ph/9502001,
title = {Conductivity of a Relativistic Plasma},
author = {Bastiaan J. Braams and Charles F. F. Karney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:plasm-ph/9502001},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
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