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Uniform derivation of Coulomb collisional transport thanks to Debye shielding

Plasma Physics 2019-02-20 v2

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 bb, with a convergent expression reducing to Rutherford scattering for small bb. No cutoff at the Debye length scale is needed, and the Coulomb logarithm is only slightly modified.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7797,
  title  = {Uniform derivation of Coulomb collisional transport thanks to Debye shielding},
  author = {Dominique F. Escande and Yves Elskens and Fabrice Doveil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7797},
  year   = {2019}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.1546, arXiv:1310.3096