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The electron velocity distribution function in the plasma, formed by gas ionization with a sub-nanosecond, hundreds of megawatts power level microwave pulse, is studied by a theoretical model and by numerical 3D simulations, the results of…

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The grains immersed in plasma get eroded by the ions falling onto them. As a consequence, they exhibit self-consistent mass fluctuations due to perturbations in the plasma charging currents. The grain mass is then a dynamical variable. The…

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Atmospheric pressure helium plasmas are investigated through molecular dynamics simulations at room temperature (300 K) for various ionization fractions ($\chi_i = 10^{-1} - 10^{-5}$) in the strongly coupled regime (ion coupling parameter,…

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In this short note, we present some work on investigating electron temperatures and potentials in steady or unsteady dilute plasma flows. The analysis is based on the detailed fluid model for electrons. Ionization, normalized electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Shiying Cai , Chunpei Cai , Xin He

We analyze, quantum mechanically, the dynamics of ionization with a strong, circularly polarized, laser field. We show that the main source for non-adiabatic effects is connected to an effective barrier lowering due to the laser frequency.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Francois Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk

The electrostatic perturbations in an unmagnetized, non-isothermal ($T_i{\ll}T_e$) electron-ion plasma shear flow are considered. New physical effects, arising due to the non-normality of linear dynamics, are described. It is shown that the…

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Dust-ion collisional effect in dust ion acoustic waves is investigated in the framework of spherical and cylindrical geometry. For such study the fluid equation are takes and collisional effect is consider in the equation of momentum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Uday Narayan Ghosh , Laxmikanta Mandi , Prasanta Chatterjee

We quantify the energy radiated through all the collisionally excited lines in a photoionized nebula which is permeated by temperature fluctuations. We assume that these correspond to hot spots which are the results of an unknown heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Binette , V. Luridiana

Density fluctuations in the ionised interstellar medium have a profound effect on radio pulsar observations, through angular scattering, intensity scintillations, and small changes in time delays from dispersion. Here we show that it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Daniel J. Reardon , William A. Coles

The effect of changing the driving frequency on the plasma density and the electron dynamics in a capacitive radio-frequency argon plasma operated at low pressures of a few Pa is investigated by Particle in Cell/Monte Carlo Collisions…

Via a non-perturbative method we study the population dynamics and photoelectron spectra of Cs atoms subject to intense chirped laser pulses, with gaussian beams. We include above threshold ionization spectral peaks. The frequency of the…

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The ionization of an atom by a high-frequency intense laser pulse, where the energy of a single-photon is sufficient to ionize the system, is investigated from first principles. It is shown that as a consequence of an AC Stark effect in the…

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Transport properties of the ionic component of dense plasmas are investigated on the basis of effective potentials taking into account the presence of an external alternating electrical (laser) field. The latter generates single particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 S. K. Kodanova , M. K. Issanova , G. K. Omiraliyeva , T. S. Ramazanov

We show how optical spectra in dense plasmas are determined by the shift of energy levels as well as the broadening owing to collisions with the plasma particles. In lowest approximation, the interaction with the plasma particles is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Chengliang Lin , Gerd Röpke , Heidi Reinholz , Wolf-Dietrich Kraeft

In this work, the stopping power of a partially ionized plasma is analyzed by means of free electron stopping and bound electron stopping. For the first one, the RPA dielectric function is used, and for the latter one, an interpolation of…

It is not fully understood how electromagnetic waves propagate through plasma density fluctuations when the size of the fluctuations is comparable with the wavelength of the incident radiation. In this paper, the perturbing effect of a…

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A high energy density plasma embedded in a neutral gas is able to launch an outward-propagating nonlinear electrostatic ionization wave that traps energetic electrons. The trapping maintains a strong sheath electric field, enabling rapid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Haotian Mao , Kathleen Weichman , Zheng Gong , Todd Ditmire , Hernan Quevedo , Alexey Arefiev

To expand on recent work, we introduce collisional terms in the analysis of the warm ion-electron, two-fluid equations for a homogeneous plasma at rest. Consequently, the plasma is now described by six variables: the magnetisation, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Joeri De Vadder , Jordi De Jonghe , Rony Keppens

We analyze the obtained solutions of the non-linear Shroedinger equation for spherically and axially symmetrical electrons density oscillations in plasma. The conditions of the oscillations process existence are examined. It is shown that…

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In collision-poor plasmas from space, three distinct ion-ion instabilities can be driven by the proton beams streaming along the background magnetic field: left-hand resonant, non-resonant, and right-hand resonant instabilities. These…

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