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The before described general principles and methodology of calculating electron wave propagation in homogeneous isotropic half-infinity slab of Maxwellian plasma with indefinite but in principal value sense taken integrals in characteristic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 V. N. Soshnikov

We obtain a convergent power series expansion for the first branch of the dispersion relation for subwavelength plasmonic crystals consisting of plasmonic rods with frequency-dependent dielectric permittivity embedded in a host medium with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Santiago Fortes , Robert Lipton , Stephen Shipman

A unified numerically solvable framework for dispersion relations with arbitrary number of species drifting at arbitrary directions and with Krook collision is derived for linear uniform/homogenous kinetic plasma, which largely extended the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Huasheng Xie

One of the fundamental open questions in plasma physics is the role of non-thermal particles distributions in poorly collisional plasma environments, a system commonly found throughout the Universe, e.g. the solar wind and the Earth's…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Belén Acosta , Denisse Pastén , Pablo S. Moya

The various distribution functions can encompass the diverse characteristics of the magnetospheric plasma of surrounding neutron stars in both hot and cold environments; however, the Maxwell-J\"uttner distribution is so far widely used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-02 M. Mousavi , J. Benáček

We demonstrate that a nonthermal distribution of particles described by a kappa distribution can be accurately approximated by a weighted sum of Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions. We apply this method to modeling collision processes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

Kappa distributions are ubiquitous in space and astrophysical poorly collisional plasmas, such as the solar wind, suggesting that microscopic and macroscopic properties of these non-equilibrium plasmas are highly conditioned by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Pablo S. Moya , Marian Lazar , Stefaan Poedts

The normal modes, i.e., the eigen solutions to the dispersion relation equation, are the most fundamental properties of a plasma, which also of key importance to many nonlinear effects such as parametric and two-plasmon decay, and Raman…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Tian-Xing Hu , Dong Wu , Z. M. Sheng , J. Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the kinetic stability of classical, collisional plasma - that is, plasma in which the mean-free-path $\lambda$ of constituent particles is short compared to the length scale $L$ over which fields and bulk…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Archie F. A. Bott , Steven C. Cowley , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Diffusion coefficients of energetic charged particles in turbulent magnetic fields are a fundamental aspect of diffusive transport theory but remain incompletely understood. In this work, we use quasi-linear theory to evaluate the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Xiaohang Chen , Joe Giacalone , Fan Guo , Kristopher G. Klein

In this paper we have criticized the so-called Landau damping theory. We have analyzed solutions of the standard dispersion equations for longitudinal (electric) and transversal (electromagnetic and electron) waves in half-infinite slab of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 V. N. Soshnikov

This paper presents the misestimation of temperature when observations from a kappa distributed plasma are analyzed as a Maxwellian. One common method to calculate the space plasma parameters is by fitting the observed distributions using…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Georgios Nicolaou , George Livadiotis

The dispersion equation of MGD plasma waves measured in a reference frame with a relative speed from that where they are generated is derived. The analysis leads further from what is known for waves produced in stationary plasmas in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 H. Pérez-de-Tejada , Eric Gómez-Gómez

Electron-acoustic solitary waves (EASWs) in quantum plasma comprising stationary ions, cold electrons, hot electrons, and kappa-distributed electrons have been investigated. The generalized Kappa-Fermi distribution has been modified to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Aakanksha Singh , Punit Kumar

Velocity distribution functions (VDFs) that exhibit a power-law dependence on the high-energy tail have been the subject of intense research by the plasma physics community. Such functions, known as kappa or superthermal distributions, have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell

Several analysis methods for nonstationary fluctuations are described and applied to the edge localized mode (ELM) instabilities of limiter H-mode plasmas. The microwave scattering diagnostic observes poloidal $k_{\theta}$ values of 3.3…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Kurt S. Riedel , Alexander Sidorenko , Norton Bretz , David J. Thomson

We consider the resonant scattering of coherent electromagnetic waves by a Raman-like process in the gamma ray range off electrostatic modes in a quantum plasma using a collective Klein-Gordon-Maxwell model. The growth rates for the most…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Bengt Eliasson , Chuan S. Liu

Here we investigate some aspects of stochastic acceleration of ultrarelativistic electrons by magnetic turbulence. In particular, we discuss the steady-state energy spectra of particles undergoing momentum diffusion due to resonant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Stawarz , V. Petrosian

Within the framework of the kinetic method, the process of interaction of a rarefied electron plasma with laser beat waves is investigated taking into account the initial spread in the velocities of plasma particles. Using the expression…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Anahit H. Shamamian , Lekdar A. Gevorgian , Hayk L. Gevorgyan

Kappa distributions and with loss cone features have been frequently observed with flares emissions with the signatures of Lower hybrid waves. We have analysed the plasma with Kappa distributions and with loss cone features for the drift…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Antony Soosaleon , Blesson Jose