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Study on Cooling of Positronium for Bose-Einstein Condensation

Quantum Gases 2016-05-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Atomic Physics

Abstract

A new method of cooling positronium down is proposed to realize Bose-Einstein condensation of positronium. We perform detail studies about three processes (1) thermalization processes between positronium and silica walls of a cavity, (2) Ps-Ps scatterings and (3) Laser cooling. The thermalization process is shown to be not sufficient for BEC. Ps-Ps collision is also shown to make a big effect on the cooling performance. We combine both methods and establish an efficient cooling for BEC. We also propose a new optical laser system for the cooling.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07924,
  title  = {Study on Cooling of Positronium for Bose-Einstein Condensation},
  author = {Kenji Shu and Xing Fan and Takayuki Yamazaki and Toshio Namba and Shoji Asai and Kosuke Yoshioka and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07924},
  year   = {2016}
}