Weakly Nonlinear Dust-Ion-Acoustic Solitons in an Electronegative Collisionless Dusty Plasma With Cairns–Gurevich Distributed Electrons

Abstract

The problem of dust-ion-acoustic (DIA) solitons is addressed in an electronegative collisionless dusty plasma with the presence of trapped-nonthermal electrons. To do this, we revisited the Cairns–Gurevich distribution that describes, concurrently, the evolution of the energetic electrons and those trapped in the plasma potential and analytically expressed its corresponding density. The modifications, due to the presence of this trapped nonthermal density, arising in small-amplitude DIA solitons propagation associated with both space and experimental plasmas are analyzed. In particular, we have found that, in both cases, a proportion of trapped nonthermal electrons relatively significant makes the solitary structure less spiky. Besides, we have shown that the amplitude and width of the experimental plasma soliton seem more affected due to the low ionic mass ratio.