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Full conserving dielectric function for plasmas at any degeneracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2010

Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco*
Affiliation:
E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Dielectric functions of an electron plasma are calculated for an electron gas in which number, momentum, and energy are conserved during electron-electron collisions. They are compared with others in the literature, revealing that, in general, that imposition of the conservation laws tends to make the full conserving dielectric response more similar to the random phase approximation dielectric response than without it. This is due to the fact that in the random phase approximation model all the conservation laws are also enforced. Our model is checked for other plasma degeneracies; concretely we consider partially degenerate plasmas and classical plasmas. The behaviour of the dielectric functions of these plasmas is similar to the degenerate one. Differences among dielectric functions are more significant than for the degenerate case, but it is mainly due to low relaxation time values. The most relevant issue for these plasmas is the fact that the consideration of energy conservation in the dielectric function is more important in these cases, because plasma temperature is significant.

Keywords

Dielectric functionElectron collisionsEnergy lossPlasma degeneracy
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 2010 , pp. 307 - 311
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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