Conductivity and Screening in Plasma with Arbitrary Electron Degeneracy

The optical properties of a nonideal fully ionized plasma are discussed using kinetic theory. It is shown that plasma conductivity in a moderately nonideal case in general requires accounting for the arbitrary degeneracy of the electron component of the plasma. The analytical results obtained generalize the recently developed consideration of the optical properties of plasma for nondegenerate electrons. Calculations were carried out for the static conductivity of plasma.