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How do charged particles escape from the magnetic field?

April 26, 2017charged escape magnetic field particles

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How do charged particles escape from the magnetic field?

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Although the forces applied to the charged particles are such as to prevent them moving to the plasma edge, the effect of Coulomb collisions and turbulence is to lead to a random walk of particles, reaching the plasma edge on a timescale of order 1s.