Integral form of the Boltzmann equation for the forced diffusion of charged particles in anisotropically scattering media

Summary According to a recently proposed integral formulation of the Boltzmann equation for test particles in an external force field, the present paper shows how it is actually possible to reduce the original transport problem to the solution of a system of linear integral equations in one variable for a wide and physically meaningful class of interaction laws between test particles and host medium. The feasibility study deals mainly with anisotropic scattering, and provides the kernels of the final integral system to be solved. The explicit analytic form of such kernels has been explicitly worked out for some interaction models of particular interest.

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Sommario Sulla base di una recente formulazione della teoria del trasporto di particelle in presenza di una forza esterna, il presente lavoro mostra come il problema considerato sia riconducibile, per varie e significative leggi di interazione tra le particelle e il mezzo in cui diffondono, a un sistema di equazioni integrali lineari in una variabile indipendente. Viene studiato soprattutto lo scattering anisotropo, e sono ricavati in forma esplicita i kernel del sistema integrale per alcuni modelli di interazione di maggiore interesse.