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Non-equilibrium Microwave Plasma for Efficient High Temperature Chemistry
Published on: August 1, 2017
Theory of Thomson scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas
1IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, 108840, Russia.
Abstract:
A self-consistent kinetic theory of Thomson scattering of an electromagnetic field by a nonuniform plasma is derived. We show that not only the imaginary part, but also the time and space derivatives of the real part of the dielectric susceptibility determine the amplitude and the width of the Thomson scattering spectral lines. As a result of inhomogeneity, these properties become asymmetric with respect to inversion of the sign of the frequency. Our theory provides a method of a remote probing and measurement of electron density gradients in plasma; this is based on the demonstrated asymmetry of the Thomson scattering lines.
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