FIZIKA A 11 (2002) 3 , 121-130

EFFECTS OF BOUND ELECTRONS ON THE TRANSVERSE WAVES IN A VLASOV PLASMA

BISWANAT CHAKRABORTY^a, SUJAY K. BHATTACHARYA^b and SAILENDRA N. PAUL^b,c,*

^aDepartment of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, West Bengal, India
^bFaculty of Science, Serampore Girls' College, Dist. Hooghly, West Bengal 712-201, India
^cInter-University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
^*E-mail address: sailenpaul@rediffmail.com

Received 28 September 2001; revised manuscript received 4 December 2002
Accepted 16 December 2002        Online 07 February 2003

Propagation of transverse waves is studied in a Vlasov plasma consisting of a mixture of free electrons, weakly bound electrons, free static ions and static ions associated with the bound electrons, maintaining macroscopic charge neutralization. The dependence on temperature of the phase velocity, group velocity and Thomson scattering cross-section have been investigated. Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian of a compressible plasma having bound electrons in the fluid mixture approximation have been discussed.

PACS numbers: 52.40.Dg, 52.40.Db, 52.25.Vy
UDC 531.52

Keywords: transverse waves, Vlasov plasma, macroscopically neutral, free and weakly bound electrons, free static ions, phase and group velocity

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