Positronium in a liquid phase: formation, bubble state and chemical reactions
Other Condensed Matter
2013-01-01 v1 Chemical Physics
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1203.5390,
title = {Positronium in a liquid phase: formation, bubble state and chemical reactions},
author = {Sergey V. Stepanov and Vsevolod M. Byakov and Dmitrii S. Zvezhinskiy and Gilles Duplatre and Roman R. Nurmukhametov and Petr S. Stepanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5390},
year = {2013}
}