Abstract
Supersoliton (SS) can be mainly featured in two ways, namely, by focusing on subsidiary maxima on its electric field or by meeting the requirement that the appropriate Sagdeev pseudopotential (SP) has three local extrema between the equilibrium conditions and its amplitude. In this paper, by using the SP method, double layers and ion-acoustic SSs are studied in a plasma with Maxwellian cold electrons, nonthermal hot electrons, and fluid ions. The existence of the SS regime in parameter space is obtained in a methodical fashion. The existence domains for positive solitary waves are also presented. It is found that there is no SSs at the acoustic speed.
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Gao, DN., Zhang, J., Yang, Y. et al. Ion-acoustic supersolitons and double layers in plasmas with nonthermal electrons. Plasma Phys. Rep. 43, 833–837 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X17080062
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