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 …

Experimental progress in positronium laser physics

DB Cassidy - The European Physical Journal D, 2018 - Springer
The field of experimental positronium physics has advanced significantly in the last few
decades, with new areas of research driven by the development of techniques for trapping …

Pulsed production of antihydrogen

C Amsler, M Antonello, A Belov, G Bonomi… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Antihydrogen atoms with K or sub-K temperature are a powerful tool to precisely probe the
validity of fundamental physics laws and the design of highly sensitive experiments needs …

Dense GeV electron–positron pairs generated by lasers in near-critical-density plasmas

XL Zhu, TP Yu, ZM Sheng, Y Yin, ICE Turcu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Pair production can be triggered by high-intensity lasers via the Breit–Wheeler process.
However, the straightforward laser–laser colliding for copious numbers of pair creation …

Precision Microwave Spectroscopy of the Positronium Fine Structure

L Gurung, TJ Babij, SD Hogan, DB Cassidy - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We report a new measurement of the positronium (Ps) 2 S 3 1→ 2 P 3 0 interval. Slow Ps
atoms, optically excited to the radiatively metastable 2 S 3 1 level, flew through a microwave …

Positrons in surface physics

C Hugenschmidt - Surface Science Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Within the last decade powerful methods have been developed to study surfaces using
bright low-energy positron beams. These novel analysis tools exploit the unique properties …

All-optical quasi-monoenergetic GeV positron bunch generation by twisted laser fields

J Zhao, YT Hu, Y Lu, H Zhang, LX Hu, XL Zhu… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Generation of energetic electron-positron pairs using multi-petawatt (PW) lasers has recently
attracted increasing interest. However, some previous laser-driven positron beams have …

Many-body theory of positron binding to polyatomic molecules

J Hofierka, B Cunningham, CM Rawlins, CH Patterson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Positron binding to molecules is key to extremely enhanced positron annihilation and
positron-based molecular spectroscopy. Although positron binding energies have been …

Many-Body Theory Calculations of Positron Scattering and Annihilation in , , and

CM Rawlins, J Hofierka, B Cunningham… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The recently developed ab initio many-body theory of positron molecule binding [J. Hofierka,
Many-body theory of positron binding to polyatomic molecules, Nature (London) 606, 688 …