This article illustrates how very small deviations from the Maxwellian exponential tail, while leaving unchanged bulk quantities, can yield dramatic effects on fusion reaction rates and discuss several mechanisms that can cause such deviations. Fusion reactions are the fundamental energy source of stars and play important roles in most astrophysical contexts. Since the beginning of quantum mech...

[1] The Radio Plasma Imager (RPI) on the IMAGE satellite stimulates short-range plasma wave echoes and plasma emissions, known as plasma resonances, which are then displayed on plasmagrams. These resonances are used to provide measurements of the local electron density ne and magnetic field strength jBj. The RPI-stimulated resonances are the magnetospheric analog of plasma resonances stimulated...

The collision frequencies of electron-neutral-particle in the weakly ionized complex plasmas with non-Maxwellian velocity distributions are studied. average derived accurately. We find that these significantly dependent on power-law spectral indices distribution functions and so they generally different from a Maxwellian distribution, which will affect transport properties charged particles pla...