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Plasma in sonoluminescing bubble.

Yu An1

  • 1Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. anyuw@tsinghua.edu.cn <anyuw@tsinghua.edu.cn>

Ultrasonics
|June 27, 2006
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Sonoluminescing bubbles reach high temperatures, forming dense plasma. Their light emission spectrum and pulse width depend on temperature, deviating from black body radiation at lower temperatures.

Area of Science:

  • Physics
  • Acoustics
  • Plasma Physics

Background:

  • Sonoluminescence involves light emission from collapsing bubbles.
  • Previous models did not fully account for high-density plasma formation within bubbles.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the maximum temperature and light emission of sonoluminescing bubbles.
  • To compare plasma and bremsstrahlung/recombination models for light emission.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a molecular dynamics model to evaluate the accommodation coefficient of water vapor.
  • Applied full partial differential equations to calculate bubble temperature and density.
  • Modeled light emission using plasma and bremsstrahlung/recombination approaches.

Main Results:

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  • Maximum bubble temperatures reached tens of thousands of Kelvin, forming dense plasma.
  • At lower temperatures (<30,000 K), light pulse width was wavelength-independent, deviating from black body radiation.
  • At higher temperatures (~60,000 K), pulse width became wavelength-dependent, approaching black body radiation.

Conclusions:

  • Gas dynamics calculations yield higher maximum temperatures than black body fitting.
  • The light emission characteristics of sonoluminescing bubbles are strongly temperature-dependent.
  • Plasma physics plays a crucial role in understanding sonoluminescence spectra.