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    A model for defect formation in materials exposed to radiation
    (2021-01-01) Davis, Sergio; González-Cataldo, Felipe; Gutiérrez, Gonzalo; Avaria, Gonzalo; Bora, Biswajit; Jalaj Jain, José; Pavez, Cristian; Soto, Leopoldo
    A simple model for the stochastic evolution of defects in a material under irradiation is presented. Using the master-equation formalism, we derive an expression for the average number of defects in terms of the power flux and the exposure time. The model reproduces the qualitative behavior of self-healing due to defect recombination, reaching a steady-state concentration of defects that depends on the power flux of the incident radiation and the material temperature, while also suggesting a particular time scale on which the incident energy is most efficient for producing defects, in good agreement with experimental results. Given this model, we discuss the integral damage factor, a descriptor that combines the power flux and the square of the irradiation time. In recent years, the scientific community involved in plasma-facing materials for nuclear fusion reactors has used this parameter to measure the equivalent material damage produced in experiments of various types with different types of radiation and wide ranges of power flux and irradiation time. The integral damage factor is useful in practice but lacks formal theoretical justification. In this simple model, we find that it is directly proportional to the maximum concentration of defects. © 2021 Author(s).
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    Kappa distribution from particle correlations in nonequilibrium, steady-state plasmas
    (American Physical Society, 2023-12) Davis, Sergio; Avaria, Gonzalo; Bora, Biswajit; Jain, Jalaj; Moreno, José; Pavez, Cristian; Soto, Leopoldo
    Kappa-distributed velocities in plasmas are common in a wide variety of settings, from low-density to high-density plasmas. To date, they have been found mainly in space plasmas, but are recently being considered also in the modeling of laboratory plasmas. Despite being routinely employed, the origin of the kappa distribution remains, to this day, unclear. For instance, deviations from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution are sometimes regarded as a signature of the nonadditivity of the thermodynamic entropy, although there are alternative frameworks such as superstatistics where such an assumption is not needed. In this work we recover the kappa distribution for particle velocities from the formalism of nonequilibrium steady-states, assuming only a single requirement on the dependence between the kinetic energy of a test particle and that of its immediate environment. Our results go beyond the standard derivation based on superstatistics, as we do not require any assumption about the existence of temperature or its statistical distribution, instead obtaining them from the requirement on kinetic energies. All of this suggests that this family of distributions may be more common than usually assumed, widening its domain of application in particular to the description of plasmas from fusion experiments. Furthermore, we show that a description of kappa-distributed plasma is simpler in terms of features of the superstatistical inverse temperature distribution rather than the traditional parameters κ and the thermal velocity vth.