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Coulomb collision operator
Abstract
Properties of the Coulomb collision operator that have been found useful in plasma kinetic theory and plasma transport theory are gathered and reviewed, with derivations. The use of velocity-space coordinates appropriate to a magnetized (drift-kinetic) plasma is emphasized. Little of the material is new, although the derivations may be more detailed than is customary.
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BibTeX
@misc{hazeltine2026coulomb,
title = {{Coulomb collision operator}},
author = {R. D. Hazeltine},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.18988},
eprint = {2610.18988},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18988},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Coulomb collision operator
AU - R. D. Hazeltine
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.18988
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18988
AB - Properties of the Coulomb collision operator that have been found useful in plasma kinetic theory and plasma transport theory are gathered and reviewed, with derivations. The use of velocity-space coordinates appropriate to a magnetized (drift-kinetic) plasma is emphasized. Little of the material is new, although the derivations may be more detailed than is customary.
ER -