Conductivity of a relativistic plasma

1989/07/01 by Bastiaan J. Braams, Charles F. F. Karney · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #physics.plasm-ph #plasm-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.858966

published as Phys. Fluids B1(7), 1355-1368 (July 1989) · LaTex 2.09, 36 pages, 1 fig. Replacement to fix minor errors and to upload source files

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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 that 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.

Citations

• Differential form of the collision integral for a relativistic plasma

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