Instability-enhanced transport in low temperature magnetized plasma
Plasma Physics
2019-09-04 v1
Abstract
It is shown that the transport in low temperature, collisional, bounded plasma is enhanced by instabilities at high magnetic field. While the magnetic field confines the electrons in a stable plasma, the instability completely destroys the confinement such that the transport becomes independent of the magnetic field in the highly magnetized limit. An analytical expression of the instability-enhanced collision frequency is proposed, based on a magnetic field independent edge-to-center density ratio.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.09823,
title = {Instability-enhanced transport in low temperature magnetized plasma},
author = {R. Lucken and A. Bourdon and M. Lieberman and P. Chabert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09823},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Physics of Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, In press