Dust charging processes in the nonequilibrium dusty plasma with nonextensive power-law distribution

The dust charging processes in the collections of electrons and ions in the nonequilibrium dusty plasma with power-law distributions are investigated on the basic of a new q-distribution function theory in nonextensive statistics. Electrons and ions obey the power-law distributions and are with q-parameters different from each other. We derive the generalized formulae for the dust charging currents in which the nonextensive effects play roles. Further we investigate the dust charging processes taking place in the homogeneous dusty plasma where only the particle velocities are power-law distributions and in the dust cloud plasma where the particle velocities and densities are both power-law distributions. By numerical analyses, we show that the nonextensive power-law distributions of electrons and ions have significant effects on the dust charging processes in the nonequilibrium dusty plasma.