Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

The kinetic equation for the dilute Lorentz gas of particles with repulsive-attractive potential, is derived. For that purpose the distribution function is decomposed into two parts: the one corresponding to the bounded motion of the marked particle and the second corresponding to its unbounded motion; only the second part, as representing the diffusion, is considered.

After the appropriate modification of the projection operator, a general kinetic equation for the diffusion part of the distribution function is obtained. The low density limit of the scattering operator of this equation is found. The regions of bounded motion are excluded in the integration over position space.

For the square-well potential, the Laplace-transformed kinetic equation is also given in full detail.