Abstract
.We investigate the average time for the earliest particle to hit a spherical absorber when a homogeneous gas of freely diffusing particles with density ρ and diffusivity D is prepared in a deterministic state and is initially separated by a minimum distance ℓ from this absorber. In the high-density limit, this first absorption time scales as in one dimension; a similar scaling behavior occurs in greater than one dimension. In one dimension, we also determine the probability that the kth-closest particle is the first one to hit the absorber. At large k, this probability decays as k1/3exp(−Ak2/3), with A = 1.932 99… analytically calculable. As a corollary, the characteristic hitting time Tk for the kth-closest particle scales as k4/3; this corresponds to superdiffusive but still subballistic motion.
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