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 …

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 …

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 …

Observation of a shape resonance of the positronium negative ion

K Michishio, T Kanai, S Kuma, T Azuma, K Wada… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
When an electron binds to its anti-matter counterpart, the positron, it forms the exotic atom
positronium (Ps). Ps can further bind to another electron to form the positronium negative …

A high-quality and energy-tunable positronium beam system employing a trap-based positron beam

K Michishio, L Chiari, F Tanaka, N Oshima… - Review of Scientific …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We constructed a new apparatus, built upon a trap-based slow positron beam, for the
production of a collimated, energy-tunable positronium beam under ultra-high vacuum …

Positronium production and scattering below its breakup threshold

SJ Brawley, SE Fayer, M Shipman, G Laricchia - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Recent findings on the similarity between electron and positronium scattering at the same
velocity [Brawley et al., Science 330, 789 (2010)] have guided us towards the realization of a …

Stability and bonding nature of positronic lithium molecular dianion

S Ito, D Yoshida, Y Kita, T Shimazaki… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We studied the stability of a system consisting of a positron (e+) and two lithium anions,[Li−;
e+; Li−], using first-principles quantum Monte Carlo calculations combined with the multi …

Positronium as a probe of small free volumes in crystals, polymers and porous media

T Goworek - … Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio AA …, 2015 - journals.umcs.pl
Positronium (a hydrogen-like bound state of an electron and a positron) is a convenient
probe to determine the sizes of subnanometric free volumes (voids) in condensed matter. A …

Internal structure of the positronium ion

D Bressanini - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
The positronium ion Ps–is often qualitative described as a positronium Ps with a loosely
bound second electron, since the value of the annihilation rate for Ps–is nearly equal to that …

An energy-tunable positronium beam produced via photodetachment of positronium negative ions and its applications

Y Nagashima, K Michishio, L Chiari… - Journal of Physics B …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Positronium is a bound state of one electron and one positron. It can be seen as the lightest
neutral'atom'. It can also be seen as a neutralized electron or a neutralized positron. Since …