Atoms (Apr 2018)

Doppler Broadening of Spectral Line Shapes in Relativistic Plasmas

  • Mohammed Tayeb Meftah,
  • Hadda Gossa,
  • Kamel Ahmed Touati,
  • Keltoum Chenini,
  • Amel Naam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms6020016
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 2
p. 16

Abstract

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In this work, we report some relativistic effects on the spectral line broadening. In particular, we give a new Doppler broadening in extra hot plasmas that takes into account the possible high velocity of the emitters. This suggests the use of an appropriate distribution of the velocities for the emitters. Indeed, the Juttner-Maxwell distribution of the velocities is more adequate for relativistic velocities of the emitters when the latter are in plasma with an extra high temperature. We find an asymmetry in the Doppler line shapes unlike the case of the traditional Doppler effect.

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