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A study of ion-acoustic solitons and double layers in a multispecies collisionless weakly relativistic plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2005

TARSEM SINGH GILL
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, India
HARVINDER KAUR
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Khalsa College, Amritsar-143002, India (nspst99@yahoo.com)
NARESHPAL SINGH SAINI
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, India

Abstract

The effect on the propagation of ion-acoustic solitons and double layers has been studied in collisionless weakly relativistic plasma consisting of two-electron temperature with isothermal electrons and finite ion temperature. The Korteweg de-Vries (KdV) equation is derived for ion-acoustic solitons propagating in a collisionless plasma. This equation is solved in a stationary frame to obtain the expression for soliton phase velocity, soliton width and peak soliton amplitude. It is observed that these quantities are significantly influenced by the relativistic effect, ion temperature, low-temperature electron density and ratio of cold to hot electron temperatures. Many features expected from hot ion theory and two species electron plasmas automatically emerge. The analysis is further extended to higher order nonlinearity and modified Korteweg de-Vries (mKdV) equation is derived. Even though compressive and rarefactive ion-acoustic solitons are obtained, only rarefactive ion-acoustic double layers are obtained in the present investigation.

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Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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