Thermal Effects on K-dV Solitons Existing at the Critical Density of Negative Ions in Ion-Beam Plasmas

Abstract

Ion-acoustic solitons in a generalized multicomponent plasma are studied through the derivation of Korteweg-de Vries (K-dV) equation. The negative ions and ion-beams play quantitatively various roles on the existence of solitons in the plasma. Especially, the critical density introduced by the negative ions exhibits the existence of a large amplitude soliton in plasmas and due to which a derivation of a modified K-dV (mK-dV) equation is needed. By taking the higher order nonlinearity in the plasma, the transition of the K-dV equation to the mK-dV equation is also shown. Moreover, various models of the plasma due to the non-isothermality are also considered in the discussions. Further study closely related to the stability of the soliton is made and yields the salient features of the solitons.