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Uniform derivation of Coulomb collisional transport thanks to Debye shielding

Part of: Collisions in Collisionless Plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2014

D. F. Escande ,
Yves Elskens  and
F. Doveil
D. F. Escande*
Affiliation:
Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS, UMR 7345 PIIM, case 321, campus Saint-Jérôme, FR-13013 Marseille, France
Yves Elskens*
Affiliation:
Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS, UMR 7345 PIIM, case 321, campus Saint-Jérôme, FR-13013 Marseille, France
F. Doveil*
Affiliation:
Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS, UMR 7345 PIIM, case 321, campus Saint-Jérôme, FR-13013 Marseille, France
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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.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , 305810101
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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