https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2014-40791-5
Regular Article
Collimated positronium production from gases*
1 UCL Department of Physics and
Astronomy, University College London, Gower St., London, WC1E
6BT, UK
2 Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (ATOMKI), 4001 Debrecen, P.O. Box 51, Hungary
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Received:
12
December
2013
Received in final form:
4
February
2014
Published online:
3
April
2014
Abstract
New data for positronium beam production efficiency are presented. As a converter of positrons to forward-going positronium, O2 has been found to be as good as CO2 from ~250 to 400 eV. Preliminary data is also presented for the production efficiency from Ar at 2.8 eV.
Contribution to the Topical Issue “Electron and Positron Induced Processes”, edited by Michael Brunger, Radu Campeanu, Masamitsu Hoshino, Oddur Ingólfsson, Paulo Limão-Vieira, Nigel Mason, Yasuyuki Nagashima and Hajime Tanuma.
© The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
