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Electronic and Ionic Impact Phenomena: Volume 5: Slow Positron and Muon Collisions - and Notes on Recent Advances (Monographs on Physics) by Bernard Stanford Massey, Harrie S. Massey, H. B. Gilbody is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

Title page ......Page 1 Date-line ......Page 2 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ......Page 3 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ......Page 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......Page 9 CONTENTS ......Page 11 1. Introduction ......Page 15 2. The annihilation of free positrons ......Page 16 3. Positronium ......Page 17 4.1. Positronium formation in the Oere gap ......Page 19 4.2. Processes leading to quenching of ortho-positronium ......Page 21 5. Experimental methods for investigating slow collisions of positrons and of positronium in gases ......Page 22 5.1. The measurement of delayed coincidence annihilation spectra ......Page 25 5.1.1. Analysis of annihilation-time spectra ......Page 26 5.2.1. From the energy spectrum of single annihilation quanta ......Page 29 5.2.2. From observation of triple coincidences ......Page 34 5.3. Angular correlation measurements ......Page 37 6. Effect of magnetic fields on positronium formation ......Page 40 7.1. The effect on the positron annihilation rate ......Page 47 7.2. The effect on positronium formation ......Page 48 7.3. Experimental observation of the effects on positronium formation ......Page 53 7.4. Summary ......Page 57 8. Summary of experimental possibiliti

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Author
Bernard Stanford Massey, Harrie S. Massey, H. B. Gilbody
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Published
1975
Language
EN
ISBN
9780198512530
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Physics, Stem