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- Title
Ion Acceleration during Adiabatic Plasma Expansion: Renormalization Group Approach.
- Authors
Kovalev, V. F.; Bychenkov, V. Yu.; Tikhonchuk, V. T.
- Abstract
The renormalization group approach is applied to derive an exact solution to self-consistent Vlasov kinetic equations for plasma particles in the quasineutral approximation. The solution obtained describes the one-dimensional adiabatic expansion into vacuum of a plasma bunch with arbitrary initial velocity distributions of the electrons and ions. The ion acceleration is investigated for both a Maxwellian two-temperature initial electron distribution and a super-Gaussian initial electron distribution. © 2001 MAIK “Nauka / Interperiodica”.
- Subjects
DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS; PARTICLES
- Publication
JETP Letters, 2001, Vol 74, Issue 1, p10
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.1402197