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

Singleton, Robert L¹ 

[1]Los Alamos National Laboratory

关键词: CHARGED PARTICLES;    ELECTRONS;    HOT PLASMA;    PLASMA;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1050512
RP-ID  :  LA-UR-12-24620
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1050512
Others  :  TRN: US1204709

学科分类：原子、分子光学和等离子物理

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 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}.