The features of the angular spectrum of multiply scattered radiation in turbulent collisional magnetized plasma

The analysis of the statistical characteristics of small amplitude EM waves passing through a plane layer of turbulent plasma has many practical applications. Recently it has been found that losses of energy of the EM field, caused by collisions between particles of plasma, can lead not only to a decrease of wave amplitude on the exit from the boundary of a layer, but also to substantial distortion of the angular radiation distribution by multiple scattering from smooth random inhomogeneities of medium concentration. The influence of collisions of particles in turbulent plasma on the angular distribution of multiple scattered short waves is studied in the given paper, on the basis of complex geometrical optics approximation at any angles of both refraction and inclination of a magnetic field.