| PHYSICS OF GASES, PLASMAS, AND ELECTRIC DISCHARGES |
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Electron-Electron Collision Term Describing the Reflections Induced Scattering in a Magnetized Plasma |
| Chao Dong1,2**, Ding Li1,3,2**, Chang Jiang1,2 |
1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
3Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808
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Chao Dong, Ding Li, Chang Jiang 2019 Chin. Phys. Lett. 36 075201 |
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Abstract For an electron-electron collision with characteristic scale length larger than the relative gyro-radius of the two colliding electrons, when the initial relative parallel kinetic energy cannot surmount the Coulomb repulsive potential, reflection will occur with interchange of the parallel velocities of the two electrons after the collision. The Fokker–Planck approach is employed to derive the electron collision term $\mathcal{C}_{\rm R}$ describing parallel velocity scattering due to the reflections for a magnetized plasma where the average electron gyro-radius is much smaller than the Debye length but much larger than the Landau length. The electron parallel velocity friction and diffusion coefficients due to the reflections are evaluated, which are found not to depend on the electron perpendicular velocity. By studying the temporal evolution of the $H$ quantity due to $\mathcal{C}_{\rm R}$, it is found that $\mathcal{C}_{\rm R}$ eventually makes the system relax to a state in which the electron parallel velocity distribution is decoupled from the perpendicular velocity distribution.
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Received: 02 February 2019
Published: 20 June 2019
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| Fund: Supported by the National MCF Energy R&D Program under Grant No 2018YFE0311300, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11875067, 11835016, 11705275, 11675257 and 11675256, the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No XDB16010300, the Key Research Program of Frontier Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No QYZDJ-SSW-SYS016, and the External Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No 112111KYSB20160039. |
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