Plasma and trap-based techniques for science with positrons

JR Danielson, DHE Dubin, RG Greaves… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
In recent years, there has been a wealth of new science involving low-energy antimatter (ie,
positrons and antiprotons) at energies ranging from 10 2 to less than 10-3 eV. Much of this …

Recent progress in the description of positron scattering from atoms using the convergent close-coupling theory

AS Kadyrov, I Bray - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Much progress in the theory of positron scattering on atoms has been made in the ten years
since the review of Surko et al (2005 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 38 R57). We review this …

Positronium cooling in porous silica measured via Doppler spectroscopy

DB Cassidy, P Crivelli, TH Hisakado, L Liszkay… - Physical Review A …, 2010 - APS
We have measured the kinetic energy of positronium (Ps) atoms emitted into a vacuum from
a porous silica film subsequent to positron bombardment, via the Doppler spread of the …

Excited-state positronium formation from helium, argon, and xenon

DJ Murtagh, DA Cooke, G Laricchia - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
The cross sections for the formation of positronium in the 2 P state in collisions of positrons
with He, Ar, and Xe atoms have been determined by measuring coincidences between the …

Enhanced Ps-Ps interactions due to quantum confinement

DB Cassidy, AP Mills Jr - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
Slow positrons implanted into a porous silica film may efficiently form positronium (Ps) atoms
that diffuse through a network of interconnected pores. At high Ps densities, the long lifetime …

Positronium formation via excitonlike states on Si and Ge surfaces

DB Cassidy, TH Hisakado, HWK Tom, AP Mills Jr - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
Recent experiments combining lifetime and laser spectroscopy of positronium (Ps) show that
these atoms are emitted from p-Si (100) at a rate that depends on the sample temperature …

Detailed investigation of low-energy positronium-hydrogen scattering

D Woods, SJ Ward, P Van Reeth - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We investigate the four-body Coulomb process of low-energy elastic positronium-hydrogen
(Ps-H) scattering below the Ps (n= 2) excitation threshold using scattering wave functions …

Internal consistency in positron-hydrogen-scattering calculations

JJ Bailey, AS Kadyrov, I Bray - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Internal consistency in a close-coupling approach to positron-hydrogen scattering is
investigated with a particular focus on the potential overlap between the atomic and …

Differential positronium-formation cross sections for Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe

SE Fayer, DM Newson, SJ Brawley, A Loreti… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Experimental determinations of the absolute differential positronium-formation cross
sections near 0∘ for Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe are presented and compared with theory. The …

Efficient formation of positronium negative ions

Y Nagashima, T Hakodate, A Miyamoto… - Journal of Physics …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The emission of positronium negative ions from W (100) and Mo and Ta polycrystalline
surfaces has been investigated. A dramatic change in the emission efficiency upto 1.5% was …