# Instability-enhanced transport in low temperature magnetized plasma

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that in low temperature, collisional magnetized plasma, instabilities at high magnetic fields significantly enhance transport, overriding magnetic confinement and making transport independent of magnetic field strength.

## Contribution

It introduces an analytical model for instability-enhanced collision frequency based on a magnetic field independent density ratio, revealing the mechanism behind transport enhancement.

## Key findings

- Transport becomes independent of magnetic field at high magnetization.
- Instabilities destroy electron confinement in highly magnetized plasma.
- Analytical expression for instability-enhanced collision frequency is proposed.

## Abstract

It is shown that the transport in low temperature, collisional, bounded plasma is enhanced by instabilities at high magnetic field. While the magnetic field confines the electrons in a stable plasma, the instability completely destroys the confinement such that the transport becomes independent of the magnetic field in the highly magnetized limit. An analytical expression of the instability-enhanced collision frequency is proposed, based on a magnetic field independent edge-to-center density ratio.