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Velocity-space anisotropy can significantly modify fusion reactivity. The nature and magnitude of this modification depends on the plasma temperature, as well as the details of how the anisotropy is introduced. For plasmas that are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 E. J. Kolmes , M. E. Mlodik , N. J. Fisch

In magnetized plasma physics, almost all developed analytic theories assume a Maxwellian distribution function (MDF) and in some cases small deviations are described using the perturbation theory. The deviations with respect to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Olivier Izacard

In this work, we derive a dispersion equation that describes the excitation of the oblique (or Alfv\'en) firehose instability in a plasma that contains both electron and ion species modelled by bi-kappa velocity distribution functions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Anelise Ramires Meneses , Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell

Strong magnetically dominated Alfv\'enic turbulence is an efficient engine of non-thermal particle acceleration in a relativistic collisionless plasma. We argue that in the limit of strong magnetization, the type of energy distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn

Some authors have proposed that electron energy distributions in H II regions and planetary nebulae may be significantly nonthermal, and kappa-distributions have been suggested as being appropriate. Here it is demonstrated that the electron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-23 B. T. Draine , C. D. Kreisch

Transport coefficients in Lorentz plasma with the power-law kappa-distribution are studied by means of using the transport equation and macroscopic laws of Lorentz plasma without magnetic field. Expressions of electric conductivity,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Jiulin Du

Planetary magnetospheres exhibit diverse environments where Ultra-low frequency (ULF) pulsations induce nonlinear ponderomotive effects. Since suprathermal populations modeled by Kappa distributions are ubiquitous in these regions, their…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Joaquín Espinoza-Troni , Felipe A Asenjo , Pablo S Moya

This work discusses about the transport coefficients for non equilibrium hot metals. First, we review the role of the non equilibrium Kappa distribution in which the Kappa parameter varies with the temperature. A brief discussion compares…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Juan-Luis Domenech-Garret

Pronounced core-halo patterns of dark matter and gas density profiles, observed in relaxed galaxies and clusters, were hitherto fitted by empirical power-laws. On the other hand, similar features are well known from astrophysical plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. P. Leubner

A unified, fast, and effective approach is developed for numerical calculation of the well-known plasma dispersion function with extensions from Maxwellian distribution to almost arbitrary distribution functions, such as the $\delta$, flat…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Hua-sheng Xie

Observations in space plasmas reveal particle velocity distributions out of thermal equilibrium, with anisotropies (e.g., parallel drifts or/and different temperatures, $T_\parallel$ - parallel and $T_\perp$ - perpendicular, with respect to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Klaus Scherer , Edin Husidic , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner

Transport processes in the fully ionized plasma with kappa-distribution and in strong magnetic field are studied. By analyzing the current density and the heat flux in the kappa-distributed plasma, we derive the corresponding transport…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Guo Ran , Du Jiulin

There is no agreement in the literature on the rate of diffusion of a particle in a cooling granular gas. Predictions and model assumptions range from the conventional to very exotic dependence of the mean square distance (MSD) on time.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-12 Raphael Blumenfeld

We examine the Velocity Distribution Function (VDF) in dark matter halos from Milky Way to cluster mass scales. We identify an empirical model for the VDF with a wider peak and a steeper tail than a Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-25 Yao-Yuan Mao , Louis E. Strigari , Risa H. Wechsler , Hao-Yi Wu , Oliver Hahn

High energy infers high velocity and high velocity is a concept of special relativity. The Maxwellian velocity distribution is corrected to be consistent with special relativity. The corrected velocity distribution reduces to the Maxwellian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Recent evidence from Parker Solar Probe on the suprathermal electrons with Kappa-type velocity distributions in the outer corona has revived interest in the kinetic-based macro-modelling of the solar (SW), aiming to explain its properties.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Alexander Vinogradov , Marian Lazar , Ioannis Zouganelis , Viviane Pierrard , Stefaan Poedts

In this paper we continued our research of the uniform electron gas, using the single--momentum path integral Monte Carlo method, and studied the momentum distribution functions and the pair correlation functions in the warm dense matter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-24 A. S. Larkin , V. S. Filinov , P. R. Levashov

In this letter, we determine the $\kappa$-distribution function for a gas in the presence of an external field of force described by a potential U(${\bf r}$). In the case of a dilute gas, we show that the $\kappa$-power law distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Silva , R. Silva , J. A. S. Lima

The dispersion and damping rate of kinetic Alfv\'en waves are studied in temperature anisotropic space plasma with kappa-Maxwellian distribution. Employing a kinetic approach, the wave frequency and damping rate of kinetic Alfv\'en waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Rui Huo , Jiulin Du , Ran Guo

Collective optical Thomson scattering (TS) is a diagnostic commonly used to characterize plasma parameters. These parameters are typically extracted by a fitting algorithm that minimizes the difference between a measured scattered spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Bryan C. Foo , Derek B. Schaeffer , Peter V. Heuer
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