Theory of interparticle correlations in dense, high-temperature plasmas. VIII. Shear viscosity

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Abstract
We derive a fully convergent collision term of the kinetic equation for charged particles obeying the classical statistics, within the static approximation to the local-field correction. The coefficient of the ionic shear viscosity is then calculated through a solution to the kinetic equation for dense, high-temperature plasmas appropriate to the inertial-confinement-fusion experiments and to the interior of the main-sequence stars. An analytic expression for the generalized Coulomb logarithm of the shear viscosity is obtained through parametrization of those numerical results.