An Exact Calculation of Electron-Ion Energy Splitting in a Hot Plasma

[摘要] In this brief report, I summarize the rather involved recent work of Brown, Preston, and Singleton (BPS). In Refs. [2] and [3], BPS calculate the energy partition into ions and electrons as a charged particle traverses a non-equilibrium two-temperature plasma. These results are exact to leading and next-to-leading order in the plasma coupling g, and are therefore extremely accurate in a weakly coupled plasma. The new BPS calculations are compared with the more standard work of Fraley et al. [12]. The results differ substantially at higher temperature when T{sub I} {ne} T{sub e}.

[发布日期] 2012-09-10

[学科分类] 原子、分子光学和等离子物理

[关键词] CHARGED PARTICLES;ELECTRONS;HOT PLASMA;PLASMA