Enhanced Scattering Inherent to "Loss-Cone" Particle Distributions

26 June 1972

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 28 (26) , 1686-1688
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1686

Abstract

Particle scattering due to a Rosenbluth-Post convective loss-cone instability is calculated using a slab model. This collective contribution to the scattering rate is found to be the classical scattering rate increased by a factor

{(\frac{T_{i}}{T_{e}})}^{\frac{3}{2}} {(\frac{m_{e}}{m_{i}})}^{\frac{1}{2}} {(\ln Λ)}^{- 1} \times (energy amplification of the convective instability in the finite plasma)

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