Non-Maxwellian Distributions as a Nonlinear Plasma State

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Apr 2003

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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #2853

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Non-Maxwellian distributions in plasma are a well known experimental/observational fact in particular when the plasma are collisionfree and high temperature as in the overwhelming majority of space and astrophysical plasmas. Generation of such distributions is still poorly understood. It is, however, shown here that such distributions may correspond to a stationary state far from equilibrium which last just as long as the binary normal or anomalous collisionality does not come into play. This means that such distributions are essentially power law (κ-distributions) but become cut off at high energies. statistical mechanical arguments for such distributions arising in phase transitions are presented.

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