Effect of charge reduction on shielding in dusty plasmas
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چکیده
The shielding of dust particles by each other in a dusty plasma is studied taking into account the effects of dust charging. It is shown that the assumption of a Boltzmann response for dust species is not appropriate under these circumstances. Further, it is shown that in the close-packing limit, dust grains screen each other by charge reduction, and an expression is obtained for this shielding scale length. © 2003 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1582185#
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