170 Chapter Five FIGURE 5-11 FIGURE 5-12 Particle drifts in a cylindrically sym- metric plasma column do not lead 10 losses. Diffusion of gyrating par- ticles by collisions with ‘The guiding center, therefore, shifts position ina collision and undergoes a random walk, The particles will ¢' fuse in the direction opposite Vn. The step length in the random walk is no longer Aw, asin magnetic-field- free diffusion, but has instead the magnitude of the Larmor radius r. Diffusion across B can therefore be slowed down by decreasing 7; that is, by increasing B. Tosee how this comes about, we write the perpendicular component of the fluid equation of motion for either species as follows: dv mat ten (E+ v, XB) KT Yn - mnvv=0 5.45)