Dusty plasmas: The effect of closely packed grains
Authors:
- Wenjun XuWXWenjun Xu
- Nicola D'ANgeloNDNicola D'ANgelo
- Robert L. MerlinoRMRobert L. Merlino
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research
- Vol. 98 (A5) , 7843-7847
Abstract
A dusty plasma device recently described in the literature has been utilized to study experimentally the charging of dust grains by the surrounding plasma. By varying the ratio d/λD between the intergrain distance and the plasma Debye length, the effects predicted by Goertz and Ip (1984), and subsequently reanalyzed in a more general fashion by Whipple et al. (1985), when “isolated” dust grains become “closely packed” grains have been demonstrated experimentally.Keywords
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