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Star clusters dynamics in a laboratory: electrons in an ultracold plasma

D. Comparat
T. Vogt
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Electrons in a spherical ultracold quasineutral plasma at temperature in the Kelvin range can be created by laser excitation of an ultra-cold laser cooled atomic cloud. The dynamical behavior of the electrons is similar to the one described by conventional models of stars clusters dynamics. The single mass component, the spherical symmetry and no stars evolution are here accurate assumptions. The analog of binary stars formations in the cluster case is three-body recombination in Rydberg atoms in the plasma case with the same Heggie's law: soft binaries get softer and hard binaries get harder. We demonstrate that the evolution of such an ultracold plasma is dominated by Fokker-Planck kinetics equations formally identical to the ones controlling the evolution of a stars cluster. The Virial theorem leads to a link between the plasma temperature and the ions and electrons numbers. The Fokker-Planck equation is approximate using gaseous and fluid models. We found that the electrons are in a Kramers-Michie-King's type quasi-equilibrium distribution as stars in clusters. Knowing the electron distribution and using forced fast electron extraction we are able to determine the plasma temperature knowing the trapping potential depth.
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hal-00003783 , version 1 (05-01-2005)

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D. Comparat, T. Vogt, N. Zahzam, M. Mudrich, P. Pillet. Star clusters dynamics in a laboratory: electrons in an ultracold plasma. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005, 361, pp.1227. ⟨hal-00003783⟩
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