Damping of plasma-electron oscillations and waves in low-collision electron-ion plasmas
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Previously developed method for finding asymptotic solutions of Vlasov equations using two-dimensional (in coordinate x and time t) Laplace transform is applied to low-collision electron-ion plasmas. Taking into account Coulomb collisions in the limit m_e << m_i, \bar{v_i} << \bar{v_e}, and T_e m_e << T_i m_i, results in the expression for longitudinal high-frequency plasma-electron oscillation/wave decrement essentially depending on oscillation frequency ω. This expression is quite different from the used one for low-frequency plasma sound, which can be derived using expansion in asymptotically divergent series in δ/ω_0, k v_i/ω_0, where δis imaginary part of the frequency ω=ω_0+iδ, and does not reduce to simple expression with some collision frequency δ\simν^{eff}_{e_i}.
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