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Instability-enhanced transport in low temperature magnetized plasma

arXiv:1906.09823 · doi:10.1063/1.5094422

Abstract

It is shown that the transport in low temperature, collisional, bounded plasma is enhanced by instabilities at high magnetic field. While the magnetic field confines the electrons in a stable plasma, the instability completely destroys the confinement such that the transport becomes independent of the magnetic field in the highly magnetized limit. An analytical expression of the instability-enhanced collision frequency is proposed, based on a magnetic field independent edge-to-center density ratio.

Physics of Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, In press

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