强激光与等离子体相互作用中受激陷俘电子声波散射及相空间离子涡旋的形成

应用一维相对论电磁粒子模拟程序，研究了线性极化强激光入射到无碰撞密度均匀的次临界密度等离子体中所引起的受激陷俘电子声波散射不稳定性过程.不稳定性的早期行为与是否考虑离子动力学效应无关.当考虑离子动力学效应之后会激发一个随时间增长的离子声波，并且最终由于大振幅电磁孤立子的产生而中断.由于电磁孤立子内的静电场与电磁场所产生的离子加速与俘获效应，导致一个离子涡旋在离子相空间中形成；当电磁孤立子向后加速过程中，若干个离子涡旋结构随之形成.研究发现，离子涡旋结构同样存在于密度不均匀的次临界密度等离子体中.从拓扑的观 关键词： 粒子模拟 受激陷俘电子声波散射 电磁孤立子 离子涡旋     

非Maxwell电子速度分布对受激散射的影响

从考虑动理学效应的受激散射不稳定性的线性理论出发,对于n=2的Maxwell分布函数直到n=5的饱和情况的超高斯分布函数,计算了电子等离子体波和离子声波的频率和阻尼率。对受激喇曼散射和受激布里渊散射进行分析,结果表明,在激光高Z等离子体中,或者在具有激光热斑的中等Z等离子体中,电子等离子体波的阻尼率降低很多,离子声波的频率比Maxwell分布情况升高约15%。这些结果可和实验进行比较。     

激光等离子体的电子温度对Thomson散射离子声波双峰的影响

通过对不同激光条件产生的等离子体进行Thomson散射实验诊断，发现在距靶面为150 μm的临界密度面内，离子声波双峰强度出现明显的不对称性，而且强峰的位置发生了转移：当等离子体的电子温度较高时，强峰出现在短波方向；当等离子体电子温度较低时，强峰出现在长波方向.光的拉曼散射效应对应地解释了离子声波的双峰结构、双峰强度不对称性及强峰出现的位置.建立了光的拉曼散射与电子的Thomson散射的对应关系.     

利用离子声波朗道阻尼测量氧化物阴极放电中的离子温度

作为等离子体重要参数之一, 特别是在低温等离子体中离子温度的测量一直较为困难. 在磁化线性等离子体装置氧化物阴极脉冲放电条件下, 利用栅网激发离子声波, 通过测量波幅在朗道阻尼作用下随空间的演化, 利用阻尼长度是离子温度和电子温度的函数, 计算得到离子温度为0.3 eV. 测量值与国外类似装置利用光谱诊断所得结果基本相同.     

核物理与等离子体物理学科研究进展

1 理论物理 1．1 等离子体物理 深入开展了激光等离子体相互作用理论研究。为了模拟和研究激光与大尺度黑腔等离子体相互作用问题，分析了激光入射场、散射波场和离子声波的传播的耦合关系，考虑动力学效应，提出了描述自聚焦、受激散射非线性演化的耦合模型，完成流体程序的物理方案；研究了SRS时空演化机制，发现一些新物理现象；对超强激光与超高密度等离子体作用问题进行模拟，研究了高能电子、单能离子产生的新特征。     

强激光与近临界密度等离子体相互作用中的无碰撞静电冲击波产生

本文通过一维粒子模拟(particle-in-cell)方法研究了强激光与近临界密度等离子体相互作用中的弱冲击波和强冲击波产生,并讨论了非相对论和相对论光强以及等离子体密度分布区间对无碰撞冲击波形成的影响.非相对论的弱驱动光与等离子体相互作用产生的是弱冲击波.由于电子加热不充分,电子能谱呈现出双温分布.较低温度的电子对弱冲击波的形成以及质子反射加速有重要作用.弱冲击波加速质子的能谱呈连续分布.在等离子体密度上升沿区间较大时,可观察到后孤子结构向离子声波结构演化并进一步演化为弱冲击波结构的过程.在相对论的强驱动光强下,电子加热比较充分可达到相对论温度,且呈现出单温分布.进一步分析密度分布区间大小对冲击波形成的影响时发现:1)当等离子体密度上升沿区间较大时,离子声波的势垒易被热电子屏蔽且离子声波结构在传输的过程中容易被后续的激光破坏而无法演化为无碰撞冲击波;2)当等离子密度分布区间较小时,离子声波中加速电场的有效距离(即德拜长度)和持续时间更长,这导致其结构在传输过程中更加稳定.当离子声波中加速的质子与靶后鞘层场加速的质子之间的速度差满足无碰撞冲击波的离子反射条件时,离子声波进一步演化为强...     

电推力器流动模拟中的电子处理方法

 分析了电子的准中性假设、玻耳兹曼分布假设、粒子模型在电推力器流动模拟中的适用性和优劣性,提出了一种新的电子处理方法——电子漂移扩散近似,采用该方法模拟了离子发动机栅极光学系统等离子体运动过程。结果表明:该方法得出的电势分布、离子相空间分布及电子数密度分布与经典的电子玻耳兹曼分布假设处理方法计算结果一致,验证了该方法可以很好地应用于电推力器栅极光学系统模拟。     

辐射在各向异性等离子体中散射的结构因子

本文导出多组元各向异性等离子体中二体密度关联函数的计算公式,求得双麦克斯韦等离子体中考虑了电子-电子和电子-离子关联效应的电子-电子密度关联函数,最后给出电磁辐射在各向异性等离子体中散射的结构因子。 关键词：     

闪电等离子体连续光谱轮廓形成机理研究（英文）

利用光谱范围为400～1 000 nm的无狭缝光栅光谱仪记录了云对地闪电放电光谱,在可见光谱的低频段观测到丰富的一价氮离子谱线,没有明显观测到其他重要的离子谱线。闪电通道内大量电子在电场作用下向地面倾泻使通道快速加热,沿通道径向温度降低,通道表面附近氮离子与电子的相互作用增强从而产生连续辐射。闪电的连续辐射机制主要包括轫致辐射和复合辐射,对应于氮离子与自由电子的库仑碰撞和对自由电子的捕获。当等离子体温度低于10 000 K时,轫致连续辐射谱为平坦谱,其对连续谱在可见光范围内的轮廓特征没有明显影响。复合辐射方面,以类氢离子经典辐射理论为基础,引入非类氢的复杂离子近似计算方法,用Gaunt因子进行量子力学修正,分析氮离子的复合辐射过程。据此导出连续光谱复合辐射系数与波长的函数关系,由关系式绘制氮等离子体连续辐射光谱的特征曲线,与闪电连续光谱观测结果进行比较,发现等离子体表面电子温度与连续辐射光谱谱峰的位置密切相关;引入氮离子的有效核电荷数Z*对连续谱的阶跃特征和谱翼展宽特性有显著影响。对比发现,当Z*为3时,理论曲线与连续光谱的轮廓特征高度一致。Z*的取值范围由离子种类决定,有效荷电荷数Z*能很好地解释闪电等离子体在给定波长下连续光谱的阶跃特征。     

托卡马克无碰撞捕获电子模在时空表象中的群速度

按照章等[Zhang Y Z, Liu Z Y, Mahajan S M, Xie T, Liu J 2017 Phys. Plasmas 24 122304]发展的漂移波-带状流理论,将多重尺度导数展开法应用到电子漂移动理学方程,零级为描述微观尺度捕获电子模的线性本征模方程,一级为介观尺度受带状流调制的捕获电子模的包络方程.其中线性本征模方程已经在谢等[Xie T, Zhang Y Z, Mahajan S M, Wu F, He Hongda, Liu Z Y 2019 Phys. Plasmas 26 022503]的研究中被求解,利用该文得到的捕获电子模的本征值和二维模式结构计算包络方程中的群速度.径向群速度由托卡马克磁场的测地曲率贡献,极向群速度来自逆磁漂移速度和法向曲率,它们仅是极向角的函数,后者给出极向角到时间的映射.径向群速度作为时间的函数,其周期在毫秒量级,具有快速过零的特征.这为研究捕获电子模驱动带状流提供了充实的理论基础.     

On the Evolution Equations of Nonlinearly Permissible,Coherent Hole Structures Propagating Persistently in Collisionless Plasmas

A fundamental study describing nonlinear plasma wave propagation is presented. Elementary linear wave theory describes small-amplitude random waves, but lacks information about coherent structures. This improved wave model arises from the fact that structure formation is inevitably associated with particle trapping, which can only be properly addressed by the pseudo-potential method instead of Bernstein, Greene, and Kruskal (BGK) - likemethods. Only by using this method can legitimate nonlinear dispersion relations be obtained and reconciled with trapping scenarios. This privilege is used to derive evolution equations for five structures, the derivation being simplified by the acoustic nature of the permitted modes. The focus is on a special structure, the solitary electron hole of negative polarity, with which it can explain a spacecraft observation for the first time. Furthermore, it is shown that an intrinsically nonlinear structure can become macroscopically linear and thus harmonic by suitably adjusting the trapping scenario. An example is the monochromatic ion acoustic wave that propagates at ion sound velocity without dispersion. In this literature research, it also takes a critical look at a recently awarded work.     

Nonlinear ion‐acoustic cnoidal wave in electron‐positron‐ion plasma with nonextensive electrons

Effects of plasma nonextensivity on the nonlinear cnoidal ion‐acoustic wave in unmagnetized electron‐positron‐ion plasma have been investigated theoretically. Plasma positrons are taken to be Maxwellian, while the nonextensivity distribution function was used to describe the plasma electrons. The known reductive perturbation method was employed to extract the KdV equation from the basic equations of the model. Sagdeev potential, as well as the cnoidal wave solution of the KdV equation, has been discussed in detail. We have shown that the ion‐acoustic periodic (cnoidal) wave is formed only for values of the strength of nonextensivity (q). The q allowable range is shifted by changing the positron concentration (p) and the temperature ratio of electron to positron (σ). For all of the acceptable values of q, the cnoidal ion‐acoustic wave is compressive. Results show that ion‐acoustic wave is strongly influenced by the electron nonextensivity, the positron concentration, and the temperature ratio of electron to positron. In this work, we have investigated the effects of q, p, and σ on the characteristics of the ion‐acoustic periodic (cnoidal) wave, such as the amplitude, wavelength, and frequency.     

Slow electron acoustic double layer (SEADL) structures in bi-ion plasma with trapped electrons

The properties of ion acoustic double layer (IADL) structures in bi-ion plasma with electron trapping are investigated by using the quasi-potential analysis. The κ-distributed trapped electrons number density expression is truncated to some finite order of the electrostatic potential. By utilizing the reductive perturbation method, a modified Schamel equation which describes the evolution of the slow electron acoustic double layer (SEADL) with the modified speed due to the presence of bi-ion species is investigated. The Sagdeev-like potential has been derived which accounts for the effect of the electron trapping and superthermality in a bi-ion plasma. It is found that the superthermality index, the trapping efficiency of electrons, and ion to electron temperature ratio are the inhibiting parameters for the amplitude of the slow electron acoustic double layers (SEADLs). However, the enhanced population of the cold ions is found to play a supportive role for the low frequency DLs in bi-ion plasmas. The illustrations have been presented with the help of the bi-ion plasma parameters in the Earth's ionosphere F-region.     

First observation of ion acoustic waves produced by the langmuir decay instability

Thomson scattering measurements are presented which demonstrate conclusively the occurrence of the Langmuir decay instability (LDI) in a laser-produced plasma experiment. Both products of the instability, the ion acoustic wave and the electron plasma wave, were simultaneously observed and identified with their spectral characteristics. The secondary decay of the LDI-generated electron plasma wave, into another Langmuir wave and an ion acoustic wave, has been observed for the first time. The connection with growth and saturation of the stimulated Raman instability is discussed.     

Pair annihilation effects on dust ion acoustic surface wave in semi-bounded magnetized pair–ion–dust plasmas

The electron–positron pair annihilation effects on the dust ion acoustic surface wave are investigated in semi-bounded magnetized electron–positron–ion–dust plasmas. The dispersion relation of the low frequency dust ion acoustic surface wave is obtained by the plasma dielectric function with the specular reflection boundary condition. The results show that the frequency of the dust ion acoustic surface wave is found to be increased with increasing the annihilation of the electron–positron pair. In addition, the group velocity of the dust ion acoustic surface wave is also found to be increased with the annihilation of the electron–positron pair.     

Dynamic nature of the ion wake in dusty plasmas

The dynamic nature of the ion wake formed downstream a dust particle immersed in a plasma with flowing ions has been investigated via Particle-in-Cell simulation. It is found that the wake oscillates in time and the motion is characterized by some dominant frequencies. By means of signal processing analysis, three harmonics are detected (two at low frequencies and one at high frequencies) and compared to the characteristic plasma frequencies given by the dispersion relations for ions and electrons. Good matching is found between the high frequency harmonic and the electron plasma frequency, and between the low frequency harmonics and the ion acoustic and ion plasma frequencies.     

Transmission of sonics through ionised medium: Damping considerations

The various energy loss mechanisms in ion acoustic wave propagation in a gas discharge plasma have been discussed. The relative characteristic acoustic impedance of the plasma has also been experimentally determined which would help to measure the electron temperature of the plasma.     

Scattering of light waves by electron electrostatic waves in laser produced plasmas

The propagation of light waves in an underdense plasma is studied using one-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell numerical simulation.It is found that the light waves can be scattered by electron plasma waves as well as other heavily and weakly damping electron wave modes,corresponding to stimulated Raman and Brilluoin-like scatterings.The stimulated electron acoustic wave scattering is also observed as a high scattering level.High frequency plasma wave scattering is also observed.These electron electrostatic wave modes are due to a non-thermal electron distribution produced by the wave-particle interactions.The collision effects on stimulated electron acoustic wave and the laser intensity effects on the scattering spectra are also investigated.