Modelling of collective Thomson scattering from collisional plasmas
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Anomalous broadening of ion-acoustic modes has been observed using collective Thomson scattering from both the electron plasma and ion-acoustic waves in ion-collisional plasmas. Ion-acoustic waves may be broadened by Landau damping, plasma inhomogeneities and instrumental effects. A model was constructed to calculate the contribution of these effects based upon spatially and spectrally resolved measurements of collective Thomson scattering. Collisional broadening effects were then calculated using a modification of the Mermin formalism. The computational model was used to interpret experimental measurements of collisional damping rates in dense, moderately coupled, plasmas. Collisional broadening is weakly dependent of ion-acoustic frequency in nearly isothermal plasmas; and therefore collective Thomson scattering can be used as a measurement technique for collisional damping rates provided all additional broadening mechanisms are taken into account. This paper further demonstrates that modelling of collective Thomson scattering from ion-collisional ion-acoustic modes must account for inhomogeneities, Landau damping, and collisions in order to evaluate plasma parameters, such as temperature and average ionization.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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