Modeling the energetic tail of a dusty plasma's electron energy distribution and its effect on dust grain charge and behavior

Andre Nicolov,Paul M. M. Bellan

PHYSICS OF PLASMAS(2023)

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A model for a weakly ionized dusty plasma is proposed in which UV or x-ray radiation continuously creates free electrons at high energy, which then cool through collisions with a cold neutral gas before recombining. The transition of a free electron from high energy at birth to low energy at demise implies that the electron energy distribution is not the simple Maxwellian of an isolated system in thermal equilibrium, but instead has a high-energy tail that depends on the recombination time. This tail can have a major effect on dust grain charging because the flux of tail electrons can be substantial even if the density of tail electrons is small. Detailed analytic and numerical calculations of dust grain charging show that situations exist in which a small high-energy tail dominates charge behavior. This implies that dust grain charge in terrestrial and space dusty plasmas may be significantly underestimated if a Maxwellian distribution is assumed and the non-thermal dynamics are neglected.
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dusty plasma,dusty grain charge,electron energy distribution
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