Positron beams and their applications /

This book provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of the generation and application of mono-energetic positron beams. It has been written by acknowledged experts, at a level accessible to graduate students working, or planning to work, with positron beams, and to scientists in other areas who...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Coleman, Paul G., 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2000.
Subjects:
Positron beams.
Positron beams > Industrial applications.
Faisceaux de positons.
Faisceaux de positons > Applications industrielles.
SCIENCE > Physics > Nuclear.
Positron beams
Positronenstrahl
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Brief History of Positron Beams / P.G. Coleman
  • Early days
  • Positron beams in the laboratory
  • Branching out
  • Applications
  • The Generation and Transport of Positron Beams / P.G. Coleman
  • Positron sources
  • Radioactive sources
  • Pair production
  • Positron moderation
  • The physics of moderation
  • Moderating materials
  • Moderator geometries
  • Field-assisted moderators
  • Positron transport
  • Magnetic transport and focusing
  • Electrostatic transport and focusing
  • Brightness enhancement
  • Hybrid positron beams
  • Positron acceleration
  • Bunching and timing
  • Detectors
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics with Positrons and Positronium / G. Laricchia, M. Charlton
  • Fundamentals
  • Positronium
  • Basic properties
  • Annihilation modes and lifetimes
  • Spectroscopic properties
  • Non-spectroscopic laser studies and exotic tests
  • The positronium negative ion
  • Interactions of positrons with atoms and molecules
  • Experimental systems
  • Total cross-sections, Q[subscript t]
  • Elastic scattering (Q[subscript el] and dQ[subscript el]/d[Omega])
  • Positronium formation
  • Integrated cross-section, Q[subscript Ps]
  • Differential cross-section, dQ[subscript Ps]/d[Omega])
  • Excitation
  • Ionization
  • Integrated cross-section, Q[subscript i superscript z+]
  • Single ionization
  • Multiple ionization
  • Dissociative ionization, dissociative attachment, positronium compounds
  • Differential studies
  • Annihilation
  • Interactions of positronium with atoms and molecules
  • Positronium beams.

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