Langmuir wave in a dusty plasma with nonextensive electrons

Abstract

The effect of the dust charge perturbation on Langmuir waves in a dusty plasma with nonextensive electrons and Maxwellian ions is investigated within the fluid theory framework, where the sink term of electrons in the continuity equation is considered. The dispersion of Langmuir waves shows that the dust charge relaxation introduces an additional source of dissipation in Langmuir waves. The damping rate of Langmuir oscillation caused by the dust charge fluctuations is bigger than the one with Maxwellian electrons when the nonextensively distributed electrons have a suprathermal tail. On the contrary, the excess of low energy electrons for nonextensively distributed electrons can lower the damping rate of Langmuir oscillation. These differences are mainly due to the modification of the unperturbed electron attachment frequency by the nonextensively distributed electrons. Our results may be of wide relevance to space and interstellar plasmas.