Tuesday, March 27, 2012

1203.5390 (Sergey V. Stepanov et al.)

Positronium in a liquid phase: formation, bubble state and chemical
reactions
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Sergey V. Stepanov, Vsevolod M. Byakov, Dmitrii S. Zvezhinskiy, Gilles Duplatre, Roman R. Nurmukhametov, Petr S. Stepanov
This chapter reviews the following items: 1. Energy deposition and track structure of fast positrons: ionization slowing down, number of ion-electron pairs, typical sizes, thermalization, electrostatic interaction between e+ and its blob, effect of local heating; 2. Positronium formation in condensed media: the Ore model, quasifree Ps state, intratrack mechanism of Ps formation; 3. Fast intratrack diffusion-controlled reactions: Ps oxidation and ortho-para conversion by radiolytic products, reaction rate constants, interpretation of the PAL spectra in water at different temperatures; 4. Ps bubble models. "Non-point" positronium: wave function, energy contributions, relationship between the pick-off annihilation rate and the bubble radius.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5390

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