Highly Charged Ions in a Dilute Plasma: An Exact Asymptotic Solution Involving Strong Coupling

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dc.creatorBrown, Lowell S.
dc.creatorDooling, David C.
dc.creatorPreston, Dean L.
dc.date2006-03-29
dc.date2006-04-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:44:30Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:44:30Z
dc.descriptionThe ion sphere model introduced long ago by Salpeter is placed in a rigorous theoretical setting. The leading corrections to this model for very highly charged but dilute ions in thermal equilibrium with a weakly coupled, one-component background plasma are explicitly computed, and the subleading corrections shown to be negligibly small. This is done using effective field theory methods advocated by Brown and Yaffe. Thus, corrections to nuclear reaction rates that such highly charged ions may undergo can be computed precisely. Moreover, their contribution to the equation of state can also be computed with precision. Such analytic results for very strong coupling are rarely available, and they can serve as benchmarks for testing computer models in this limit.
dc.description23 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Physical Review E. Expanded discussion of the equation of state included for clarity
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0603250
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0603250
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.E73:056406,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevE.73.056406
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201627
dc.subjectPlasma Physics
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleHighly Charged Ions in a Dilute Plasma: An Exact Asymptotic Solution Involving Strong Coupling
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