Abstract

The sheath potential and its structure are analyzed for the case of a plasma with a nonthermal energetic electron population. This situation corresponds to what happens in the scrape-off layer of a tokamak plasma heated by radio-frequency waves. A modified Bohm criterion is also derived.

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