Eur. Phys. J. C (2004) 36: 221-226
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01947-5A simple treatment of color screening in a
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01947-5
theoretical physics
A simple treatment of color screening in a 
plasma
Dipartimento di Fisica teorica dell’Universitá di Trieste, INFN, Sezione di Trieste, 34014, Trieste, Italy
* e-mail: giorgio@ts.infn.it
The formation of Hückel-Debye screening in a plasma is studied following as close as possible the procedures used in the usual electric case. The equivalent of the Debye length is found, but the screening as a result is found to be less efficient than for the Coulomb interaction, since the correlation functions decay as the exponential of the distance raised at a power less than one.
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