New Directions in Antimatter Chemistry and Physics
This volume is the outgrowth of a workshop held in October, 2000 at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. The aim of this book (similar in theme to the workshop) is
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New Directions in Antimatter Chemistry and Physics Edited by
Clifford M. Surko Professor of Physics, Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A. and
Franco A. Gianturco Professor of Chemical Physics, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza ”, Rome, Italy
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Contents ix
Preface I.
Positron Sources and Beams
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A laser-cooled positron plasma B. M. Jelenkovic, J. J. Bellinger, A. B. Newbury, T. B. Mitchell and W. M. Itano
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Trap-based positron beams R. G. Greaves and C. M. Surko
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Intense radioisotope sources for spin polarized positron beams F. Saito, T. Hyodo, Y. Nagashima, T. Kurihara, N. Suzuki Y. Itoh, and A. Goto
35
II.
Antihydrogen, Bose-Condensed Positronium, and Positrons in Materials
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Collisions of H and Alexander Dalgarno, Piotr Froelich, Svante Jonsell, Alejandro Saenz, and Bernard Zygelman
47
Positron physics in a new perspective: Low-energy antihydrogen scattering by simple atoms and molecules E. A. G. Armour and C. W. Chamberlain
53
The Bose-Einstein condensation of positronium in submicron cavities D. B. Cassidy and J. A. Golovchenko
83
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Cooling and quenching of positronium in porous material Haruo Saito and Toshio Hyodo
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New experiments with bright positron and positronium beams A. P. Mills, Jr. and P. M. Platzman
115
Positron states in materials: density functional and quantum monte carlo studies Bernardo Barbiellini
127
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Depth-profiled positron annihilation spectroscopy of thin insulating films D. W. Gidley, K. G. Lynn, M. P. Petkov, M. H. Weber J. N. Sun, and A. F. Yee
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III.
Positron and Positronium Interactions with Atoms
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The scattering of positrons and positronium by atomic targets H. R. J. Walters, Jennifer E. Blackwood and Mary T. McAlinden
173
Positronic atoms J. Mitroy, M. W. J. Bromley and G. G. Ryzhikh
199
Perspectives on physics with low energy positrons: fundamentals, beams and scattering Michael Charlton
223
Positron chemistry by quantum monte carlo Massimo Mella, Simone Chiesa, Dario Bressanini, and Gabriele Morosi
235
Antimatter compounds D. M. Schrader and J. Moxom
263
Positronium-atom/molecule interactions: momentum-transfer cross sections and Y. Nagashima, F. Saito, N. Shinohara, and T. Hyodo
291
Correlations between cross sections and threshold energies for positronium formation and direct ionization J. W. Humberston, P. Van Reeth and G. Laricchia
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