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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.