Radial diffusion of resonant particles in tandem mirrors [electronic resource].
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Livermore, Calif. : Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1978. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
The radial diffusion of resonant particles in the banana regime and the plateau regime is derived in detail from kinetic theory. The plateau diffusion, calculated in the tau-approximation, confirms the result given by Ryutov--Stupakov without derivation. The banana diffusion also agrees with the R--S result provided the latter is corrected for some dependence of the collision frequency on epsilon and phi.