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Collisional Charged Particle Transport in a Magnetized Plasma

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The non-relativistic Boltzmann equation is given by Eq. (2.1), where the particle-particle collisions are represented by the collision term (δ fδ t) coll on the right-hand side. Consider now a collisionless magnetized plasma, where the collision term is zero.

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Dosch, A., Zank, G.P. (2016). Collisional Charged Particle Transport in a Magnetized Plasma. In: Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics . Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24880-6_3

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