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 …

Precision spectroscopy of positronium: Testing bound-state QED theory and the search for physics beyond the Standard Model

GS Adkins, DB Cassidy, J Pérez-Ríos - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Positronium (Ps) is an exotic hydrogenic atom composed of an electron bound to a positron
via the Coulomb force. Being composed of two low-mass leptons, positronium is, for all …

Testing CPT symmetry in ortho-positronium decays with positronium annihilation tomography

P Moskal, A Gajos, M Mohammed, J Chhokar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Charged lepton system symmetry under combined charge, parity, and time-reversal
transformation (CPT) remains scarcely tested. Despite stringent quantum-electrodynamic …

Discrete symmetries tested at 10−4 precision using linear polarization of photons from positronium annihilations

P Moskal, E Czerwiński, J Raj, SD Bass… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Discrete symmetries play an important role in particle physics with violation of CP connected
to the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. We report the most precise test of P, T …

Precision measurement of the lamb shift in muonium

B Ohayon, G Janka, I Cortinovis, Z Burkley… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We report a new measurement of the n= 2 Lamb shift in Muonium. Our result of 1047.2 (2.3)
stat (1.1) syst MHz comprises an order of magnitude improvement upon the previous best …

Precision Microwave Spectroscopy of the Positronium Interval

RE Sheldon, TJ Babij, SH Reeder, SD Hogan… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report the results of a new measurement of the positronium 2 S 3 1→ 2 P 3 2 (ν 2)
interval. Using a modified experimental arrangement we have significantly reduced the …

[HTML][HTML] An interacting fermion-antifermion pair in the spacetime background generated by static cosmic string

A Guvendi, Y Sucu - Physics Letters B, 2020 - Elsevier
We consider a general relativistic fermion antifermion pair that they interact via an attractive
Coulomb type interparticle interaction potential in the 2+ 1 dimensional spacetime …

Second-quantized Unruh-DeWitt detectors and their quantum reference frame transformations

F Giacomini, A Kempf - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We generalize the Unruh-DeWitt detector model to second quantization. We illustrate this
model by applying it to an excited particle in a superposition of relativistic velocities. We …

Variational Dirac–Coulomb explicitly correlated computations for atoms and molecules

P Jeszenszki, D Ferenc, E Mátyus - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Dirac–Coulomb equation with positive-energy projection is solved using explicitly
correlated Gaussian functions. The algorithm and computational procedure aims for a parts …

Testing quantum electrodynamics with exotic atoms

N Paul, G Bian, T Azuma, S Okada, P Indelicato - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Precision study of few-electron, high-Z ions is a privileged field for probing high-field, bound-
state quantum electrodynamics (BSQED). However, the accuracy of such tests is plagued by …