Kinetic equations for Stark line shapes

DOI10.1080/00411450.2012.671210zbMATH Open1273.82067arXiv1209.3231OpenAlexW3103767319MaRDI QIDQ5299759FDOQ5299759

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Publication date: 21 June 2013

Published in: Transport Theory and Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The BBGKY formalism is revisited in the framework of plasma spectroscopy. We address the issue of Stark line shape modeling by using kinetic transport equations. In the most simplified treatment of these equations, triple correlations between an emitter and the perturbing charged particles are neglected and a collisional description of Stark effect is obtained. Here we relax this assumption and retain triple correlations using a generalization of the Kirkwood truncature hypothesis to quantum operator. An application to hydrogen lines is done in the context of plasma diagnostic, and indicates that the neglect of triple correlations can lead to a significant overestimate of the line width.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3231

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zbMATH Keywords

kinetic theoryBogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchymultiple correlationsplasma spectroscopy modelsStark line shapes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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• Statistical Mechanics of Fluid Mixtures
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