Instability-enhanced collisional effects and Langmuir's paradox.
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Anomalously fast equilibration of the electron distribution function to a Maxwellian in gas-discharge plasmas with low temperature and pressure, i.e., Langmuir's paradox, may be explained by electron scattering via an instability-enhanced collective response and hence fluctuations arising from convective ion-acoustic instabilities near the discharge boundaries.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 102 24 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009