Wall losses for a single-species plasma near thermal equilibrium

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Abstract
The effect of a radially bounding wall on a magnetically confined single-species plasma near thermal equilibrium is considered. Solutions to the like-particle collisional transport equation are obtained; the boundary conditions at the wall follow from simple physical considerations. Integral constraints on the plasma evolution imply that only a fraction of the plasma can ever be lost to the wall. Analytic estimates and numerical solutions give the scaled wall flux in terms of the unperturbed equilibrium density at the radius of the wall.