New Statistical Multiparticle Approach to the Acceleration of Electrons by the Ion Field in Plasmas

Figure 1

The electron broadening reducing factor 𝑅 versus the parameter 𝑋=𝑣_𝐸/𝑣_𝑇 representing the scaled dimensionless ion density/field. Here 𝑣_𝑇=(2𝑇_𝑒/𝑚)^1/2, and 𝑣_𝐸 is defined by (2), (3).