Measurements of plasma spectra from hot dense elements and mixtures at conditions relevant to the solar radiative zone.
ATOMIC PROCESSES IN PLASMAS (APIP 2016) 1811 (2017)
Particle Interactions in High-Temperature Plasmas Supervisor's Foreword
Chapter in PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE PLASMAS, (2017) V-V
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Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 116 (2016) 159502
Transport coefficients of a relativistic plasma
Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics American Physical Society 93:5 (2016) 1-16
Abstract:
In this work, a self-consistent transport theory for a relativistic plasma is developed. Using the notation of Braginskii [S. I. Braginskii, in Reviews of Plasma Physics, ed. M. A. Leontovich (1965), Vol. 1, p.174], we provide semi-analytical forms of the electrical resistivity, thermoelectric and thermal conductivity tensors for a Lorentzian plasma in a magnetic field. This treatment is then generalized to plasmas with arbitrary atomic number by numerically solving the linearized Boltzmann equation. The corresponding transport coefficients are fitted by rational functions in order to make them suitable for use in radiation-hydrodynamic simulations and transport calculations. Within the confines of linear transport theory and on the assumption that the plasma is optically thin, our results are valid for temperatures up to a few MeV. By contrast, classical transport theory begins to incur significant errors above kBT ~ 10 keV, e.g., the parallel thermal conductivity is suppressed by 15% at kBT = 20 keV due to relativistic effectsEfficient evaluation of collisional energy transfer terms for plasma particle simulations
Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press (CUP) 82:1 (2016) 905820107