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arxiv: 1404.7797 · v2 · pith:CEJAK6U3new · submitted 2014-04-30 · ⚛️ physics.plasm-ph

Uniform derivation of Coulomb collisional transport thanks to Debye shielding

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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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