Propagation of ion-acoustic solitary waves in a relativistic electron-positron-ion plasma

Details Propagation of ion-acoustic solitary waves in a relativistic electron-positron-ion plasma Propagation of ion-acoustic solitary waves in a relativistic electron-positron-ion plasma

2011-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/1102.2842v1

Can. J. Phys. 89: 299-309 (2011)

Physics

Plasma Physics

17 pages, 14 figures, Accepted: Canadian Journal of Physics, Manuscript Number 10-486

Scientific paper

10.1139/P11-024

Propagation of large amplitude ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) in a fully relativistic plasma consisting of cold ions and ultrarelativistic hot electrons and positrons is investigated using the Sagdeev's pseudopotential method in a relativistic hydrodynamics model. Effects of streaming speed of plasma fluid, thermal energy, positron density and positron temperature on large amplitude IASWs are studied by analysis of the pseudopotential structure. It is found that in regions that the streaming speed of plasma fluid is larger than that of solitary wave, by increasing the streaming speed of plasma fluid the depth and width of potential well increases and resulting in narrower solitons with larger amplitude. This behavior is opposite for the case where the streaming speed of plasma fluid is smaller than that of solitary wave. On the other hand, increase of the thermal energy results in wider solitons with smaller amplitude, because the depth and width of potential well decreases in that case. Additionally, the maximum soliton amplitude increases and the width becomes narrower as a result of increase in positron density. It is shown that varying the positron temperature does not have considerable effect on the width and amplitude of IASWs. The existence of stationary soliton-like arbitary amplitude waves is also predicted in fully relativistic electron-positron-ion (EPI) plasmas. Effects of streaming speed of plasma fluid, thermal energy, positron density and positron temperature on these kinds of solitons are the same as that for large amplitude IASWs.

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