Colloquium: Positronium physics and biomedical applications

SD Bass, S Mariazzi, P Moskal, E Stępień - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Positronium is the simplest bound state, built of an electron and a positron. Studies of
positronium in vacuum and its decays in medium tell us about quantum electrodynamics …

Positronium Laser Cooling via the Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse

LT Glöggler, N Gusakova, B Rienäcker, A Camper… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report on laser cooling of a large fraction of positronium (Ps) in free flight by strongly
saturating the 1 3 S-2 3 P transition with a broadband, long-pulsed 243 nm alexandrite laser …

High-yield thermalized positronium at room temperature emitted by morphologically tuned nanochanneled silicon targets

S Mariazzi, R Caravita, C Zimmer… - Journal of Physics B …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanochanneled silicon targets with high positron/positronium (Ps) conversion rate and
efficient Ps cooling were produced. Morphological parameters of the nanochannels, such as …

Rydberg-positronium velocity and self-ionization studies in a 1T magnetic field and cryogenic environment

M Antonello, A Belov, G Bonomi, RS Brusa, M Caccia… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We characterized the pulsed Rydberg-positronium production inside the Antimatter
Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy (AE g¯ IS) apparatus in view of …

Velocity-selected production of metastable positronium

C Amsler, M Antonello, A Belov, G Bonomi, RS Brusa… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Positronium in the 2 S 3 metastable state exhibits a low electrical polarizability and a long
lifetime (1140 ns), making it a promising candidate for interferometry experiments with a …

Toward inertial sensing with a 23S positronium beam

S Mariazzi, R Caravita, M Doser, G Nebbia… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
In this work, we discuss the possibility of inertial sensing with positronium in the 2 3 S
metastable state for the measurement of optical dipole, relativistic and gravitational forces on …

Positronium laser cooling in a magnetic field

C Zimmer, P Yzombard, A Camper, D Comparat - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We study realistic 3D laser cooling of positronium (Ps) in the presence of a magnetic field.
Triplet and singlet states mixing due to the magnetic field, and dynamical Stark effect …

A large-momentum-transfer matter-wave interferometer to measure the effect of gravity on positronium

G Vinelli, F Castelli, R Ferragut, M Romé… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the study of a new interferometric configuration to measure the effect of
gravity on positronium. A Mach–Zehnder matter-wave interferometer has been designed to …

A∼ 100 μm-resolution position-sensitive detector for slow positronium

C Amsler, M Antonello, A Belov, G Bonomi… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work we describe a high-resolution position-sensitive detector for positronium. The
detection scheme is based on the photoionization of positronium in a magnetic field and the …

Classical modeling of positronium cooling in silicon nanochannel plates

F Guatieri, S Mariazzi, C Hugenschmidt, RS Brusa - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Silicon nanochannel plates (NCPs) are employed in a variety of experiments as sources of
cold positronium (Ps) via positron to Ps conversion. Despite the widespread use of NCPs, no …