PLASMA PARAMETER

Domain	Definition
Physics	Commonly referred to as capital Lambda, this parameter appears throughout plasma physics, though it is perhaps most readily defined as the number of particles within the Debye length of a test particle. Only when the plasma parameter is large relative to unity does a material become fully plasma. The plasma parameter may equivalently be thought of as the cube of the ratio of the Debye length to the interparticle spacing. The plasma parameter and its logarithm also appear frequently in the theory of Coulomb collisions, and to a good approximation one can consider the plasma parameter to be the ratio of the collisional mean free path to the Debye length. (references)
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