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
a
e-mail: michael.shipman.09@ucl.ac.uk
b
e-mail: g.laricchia@ucl.ac.uk
Received:
12
December
2013
Received in final form:
4
February
2014
Published online:
3
April
2014
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.
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