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Features of electron distribution functions in a plasma in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields

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We treat the formation features of distribution functions of magnetized electrons over velocities and energies in a plasma located in crossed electric and magnetic fields. It is shown that the variation of electron velocity and energy between collisions, related to the motion in external fields, can substantially affect the shape of the distribution function. It is established that for strong anisotropy of the velocity distribution and for electron scattering by slightly mobile heavy particles the electron distribution function over energy has two maxima. This given feature of the electron distribution is not related to the presence of two electron groups in the plasma, but is a consequence of the transformation of distribution functions in crossed electric and magnetic fields.

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  1. N. E. Zhukovskii Institute of Aviation, Khar'kov

    V. D. Olendarev

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 88–94, August, 1991.

The author is grateful to A. A. Titov for carrying out the numerical calculations, and to A. S. Dolgov for a number of useful comments.

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Olendarev, V.D. Features of electron distribution functions in a plasma in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. Soviet Physics Journal 34, 721–726 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01103504

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