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Subject: Agricultural Physics and Meteorology × Author: Arshpreet Kaur × End date: 2020 × Start date: 2000 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Electron-acoustic double layers featuring cairns-tsallis distribution of electrons
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2019) Arshpreet Kaur; Parveen Bala
    Plasma is an ionized gas that can be considered as collection of positive and negative charge carriers and has net zero charge. It exihibits various striking nonlinear structures such as solitons and double layers. The nonlinear dynamics of large amplitude electron acoustic double layers in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma consisting of cold and hot electrons has been studied. The electrons are assumed to follows the cairns-tsallis distribution. Sagdeev pseudopotential method has been used to investigate the occurance of large amplitude double layers, focusing on how their characteristics depends upon the different parameters. For the selected range of parameters, it is found that only compressive double layers can exist. Further, the analysis is extended for small amplitude double layer solution by expanding the Sagdeev potential in the weakly coupled plasma limit ( <<1). The upper limits of the Mach number for the existence of double layer are dertermined, and their values are significantly modified in the presence of Cairns-Tsallis distributed electrons. Polarity of the nonlinear structures strongly depends on the nonthermal parameter ( ) and nonextensivity (q) of electrons. Depending on the nature of these double layers, their associated electric fields are thought to be responsible for particle acceleration or deceleration.