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Ion acoustic waves in the plasma with the power-law q-distribution in nonextensive statistics

arXiv:0804.3732 · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2008.04.016

Abstract

We investigate the dispersion relation and Landau damping of ion acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free plasma if it is described by the nonextensive q-distributions of Tsallis statistics. We show that the increased numbers of superthermal particles and low velocity particles can explain the strengthened and weakened modes of Landau damping, respectively, with the q-distribution. When the ion temperature is equal to the electron temperature, the weakly damped waves are found to be the distributions with small values of q.

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