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View SchemaRelativistic Quasilinear Diffusion in Axisymmetric Magnetic Geometry for Arbitrary-Frequency Electromagnetic Fluctuations
| Authors | Alain J. Brizard, Anthony A. Chan |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0403105 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403105 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.1773554 |
| Journal | Physics of Plasmas, vol. 11, 4220-4229 (2004) |
Abstract
A relativistic bounce-averaged quasilinear diffusion equation is derived to describe stochastic particle transport associated with arbitrary-frequency electromagnetic fluctuations in a nonuniform magnetized plasma. Expressions for the elements of a relativistic quasilinear diffusion tensor are calculated explicitly for magnetically-trapped particle distributions in axisymmetric magnetic geometry in terms of gyro-drift-bounce wave-particle resonances. The resonances can destroy any one of the three invariants of the unperturbed guiding-center Hamiltonian dynamics.
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