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Hydrogen-like ions in plasma environment

Plasma Physics 2022-05-20 v1

Abstract

The behavior of H-like ions embedded in astrophysical plasmas in the form of \emph{dense, strongly and weakly coupled} plasmas are investigated. In these, the increase and decrease in temperature is impacted with a change in confinement radius (rc)(r_{c}). Two independent and generalized scaling ideas have been applied to modulate the effect of plasma screening constant (λ\lambda) and charge of ion (ZZ) on such systems. Several new relations are derived to interconnect the original Hamiltonian and two scaled Hamiltonians. In exponential cosine screened Coulomb potential (ECSCP) (dense) and weakly coupled plasma (WCP) these scaling relations have provided a linear equation connecting the critical screening constant (λ(c))(\lambda^{(c)}) and ZZ. Their ratio offers a state-dependent constant, beyond which, a particular state vanishes. Shannon entropy has been employed to understand the plasma effect on the ion. With increase in λ\lambda, the accumulation of opposite charge surrounding the ion increases leading to a reduction in number of bound states. However, with rise in ionic charge ZZ, this effect can be delayed. The competing effect of plasma charge density (nen_e) and temperature in WCP and ECSCP is investigated. A recently proposed simple virial-like theorem has been established for these systems. Multipole (k=14k=1-4) oscillator strength (OS) and polarizabilities for these are studied considering 1s,2s1s, 2s states. As a bonus, analytical closed-form expressions are derived for f(k)f^{(k)} and α(k)(k=14)\alpha^{(k)} (k=1-4) involving 1s1s and 2s2s state, for \emph{free H-like ion}.

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@article{arxiv.2205.09531,
  title  = {Hydrogen-like ions in plasma environment},
  author = {Neetik Mukherjee and Chandra Nath Patra and Amlan K. Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.09531},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

37 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables

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