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Nonlinear structure of ion-acoustic waves in completely degenerate electron-positron and ion plasma
A Rasheed1, G Murtaza, N L Tsintsadze
1Department of Physics, GC University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Abstract:
A rigorous theoretical investigation has been made of fully nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic, collisionless, unmagnetized plasma containing of degenerate electrons and positrons, and classical cold ions. In both (nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic) regimes the electrons and positrons are assumed to follow the corresponding Fermi distribution while the ions are described by the hydrodynamic equations. An energy balancelike equation involving a Sagdeev-type pseudopotential is derived separately for both the regimes. In addition, stationary periodic and solitary waves are also investigated for the two cases. The present work would be helpful to understand the excitation of nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in a degenerate plasma such as in superdense white dwarfs.
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