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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cooling positronium to ultralow velocities with a chirped laser pulse train

K Shu, Y Tajima, R Uozumi, N Miyamoto, S Shiraishi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
When laser radiation is skilfully applied, atoms and molecules can be cooled,–, allowing the
precise measurements and control of quantum systems. This is essential for the fundamental …

Structure of silicene on a Ag (111) surface studied by reflection high-energy positron diffraction

Y Fukaya, I Mochizuki, M Maekawa, K Wada… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The structure of silicene fabricated on a Ag (111) surface was determined using reflection
high-energy positron diffraction with a linac-based brightness-enhanced intense positron …

Experiments on positronium negative ions

Y Nagashima - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper is a review of new developments in the experimental field of the efficient
emission of the positronium negative ion, a bound state of one positron and two electrons …

Ultrashort megaelectronvolt positron beam generation based on laser-accelerated electrons

T Xu, B Shen, J Xu, S Li, Y Yu, J Li, X Lu, C Wang… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental generation of ultrashort MeV positron beams with high intensity and high
density using a compact laser-driven setup is reported. A high-density gas jet is employed …

Positron production using a 9 MeV electron linac for the GBAR experiment

M Charlton, JJ Choi, M Chung, P Cladé… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract For the GBAR (Gravitational Behaviour of Antihydrogen at Rest) experiment at
CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility we have constructed a source of slow positrons …

Total-reflection high-energy positron diffraction (TRHEPD) for structure determination of the topmost and immediate sub-surface atomic layers

Y Fukaya, A Kawasuso, A Ichimiya… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Total-reflection high-energy positron diffraction (TRHEPD) has recently been developed to
investigate the surface structure (atomic geometry) and surface properties of materials. It is …