Neoclassical transport processes in weakly collisional plasmas with fractured velocity distribution functions
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Ripples in magnetic or electrostatic confinement fields give rise to trapping separatrices, and conventional neoclassical transport theory describes the collisional trapping/detrapping of particles with fractured distribution function. Our experiments and novel theory have now characterized a new kind of neoclassical transport processes arising from chaotic (nominally collisionless) separatrix crossings, which occur due to E × B plasma rotation along θ−ruffled or wave-perturbed separatrices. This chaotic neoclassical transport becomes dominant at low collisionality when the collisional spreading of particle energy during the dynamical period is less than the separatrix energy ruffle.
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