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Quantum Kinetics of Fast-Electron Inelastic Collisions in Partially-Ionized Plasmas

arXiv
Authors: Yeongsun Lee, Pavel Aleynikov, Jong-Kyu Park

Year

2026

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30563

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Preprint

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Fast electrons in partially ionized plasmas lose energy through inelastic collisions with bound electrons. While the mean energy loss is well described by stopping-power theory, fluctuations associated with discrete excitation and ionization events produce energy straggling and an additional longitudinal diffusion in momentum space. We incorporate this effect into fast-electron kinetics through a derived Fokker-Planck operator whose coefficients are obtained from ab initio quantum many-body simulations. We demonstrate that neglecting inelastic energy diffusion in partially ionized D-Ar plasmas can underestimate primary runaway-electron generation by several orders of magnitude.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:2603.18715 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18715 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18715

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