ELECTRON EXCITATION RATES IN NON-MAXWELLIAN PLASMAS

1 October 1986

journal article
Published by EDP Sciences in Le Journal de Physique Colloques

Vol. 47 (C6) , C6-57
https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1986608

Abstract

Electron excitation rates relative to allowed and forbidden transitions of He-like ions are evaluated for two current types of non-Maxwellian plasmas : plasmas with a suprathermal population and plasmas with electron distribution functions of the form exp-(v/vm)m. The rates are shown to be strongly affected by the non-Maxwellian character for moderate and large values of the ratio χ/kTe, χ being the threshold energy. This should be taken into account and hopefully taken advantage of when modelling X-ray amplifications in such plasmas

Keywords

MAXWELLIAN PLASMAS
ELECTRON EXCITATION RATES
RATES IN NON MAXWELLIAN

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