Test-particle motion in a relativistic plasma

Ph. De Gottal and J. Gariel

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1990, vol. 163, issue 2, 615-624

Abstract: We derive the relativistic Fokker-Planck equation for a light test-particlein a plasma of infinitely heavy ions (Lorentz gas). A partial H-theorem results and the solution to this equation may be explicitly computed.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(90)90148-L

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