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New directions in antimatter chemistry and physics

New concepts for intense positron sources and the development of positron accumulators and trap-based positron beams provide qualitatively new experimental capabilities.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ©2001
Cambridge (Mass., 2000)
xi, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780792371526, 0792371526
47243891
Preface. I: Positron Sources and Beams. 1. A laser-cooled positron plasma; B.M. Jelenkovic, et al. 2. Trap-based positron beams; R.G. Greaves, C.M. Surko. 3. Intense radioisotope sources for spin polarized positron beams; F. Saito, et al. II: Antihydrogen, Bose-Condensed Positronium, and Positrons in Materials. 4. Collisions of H and H; A. Dalgarno, et al. 5. Positron physics in a new perspective: Low-energy antihydrogen scattering by simple atoms and molecules; E.A.G. Armoud, C.W. Chamberlain. 6. The Bose-Einstein condensation of positronium in submicron cavities; D.B. Cassidy, J.A. Golovchenko. 7. Cooling and quenching of positronium in porous material; H. Saito, T. Hyodo. 8. New experiments with bright positron and positronium beams; A.P. Mills, Jr., P.M. Platzman. 9. Positron states in materials: density functional and quantum monte carlo studies; B. Barbiellini. 10. Depth-profiled positron annihilation spectroscopy of thin insulating films; D.W. Gidley, et al. III: Positron and Positronium Interactions with Atoms. 11. The scattering of positrons and positronium by atomic targets; H.R.J. Walters, et al. 12. Positronic atoms; J. Mitroy, et al. 13. Perspectives on physics with low energy positrons: fundamentals, beams and scattering; M. Charlton. 14. Positron chemistry by quantum monte carlo; M. Mella, et al. 15. Antimatter compounds; D.M. Schrader, J. Moxom. 16. Positronium-atom/molecule interactions: momentum-transfer cross sections and Zeff; Y. Nagashima, et al. 17. Correlations between cross sections and threshold energies for positronium formation and direct ionization; J.W. Humberston, et al. IV: Positron and Positronium Interactions with Molecules. 18. Scattering of positronium atom off atomic hydrogen and helium targets; A.S. Ghosh, P.K. Sinha. 19. Atomic and molecular physics using positron traps and trap-based beams; C.M. Surko. 20. Experimental studies of positron scattering using a weak radioactive isotope source; O. Sueoka. 21. Future opportunities in positron-atom (molecule) scattering; S.J. Buckman. 22. Theory of positron annihilation on molecules; G. Gribakin. 23. Bound states of positron with molecules; M. Tachikawa, et al. 24. Low-energy positron dynamics in polyatomic gases; F.A. Gianturco, et al. 25. A test calculation on SF6 of model potentials for correlation and polarization effects in positron scattering from molecules; R.R. Lucchese, et al. 26. On the contribution of polarization-correlation forces to high annihilation rates in positron-molecule collisions; M.T. do N. Varella, et al. Author Index. Index.