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The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) was constructed as a prototype of the cost-effective scanner for the simultaneous metabolic imaging of the whole human body. Being optimized for the detection of photons from the…
In this study, a fully self-consistent method was developed to obtain the wave functions of the positron and electrons in molecules simultaneously. The wave function of a positron at room temperature , with a characteristic energy of…
Positron binding energies and Dyson orbitals for five-membered heterocycles with N, O, S and NH substituents are predicted \emph{ab initio} via many-body theory. The positron-molecule correlation potential (self energy) is calculated via…
A method for measuring the tensor polarization in a positronium (Ps) beam is proposed, which is based on the determination of the Ps lifetime as a function of the orientation of a homogeneous magnetic field. The dependence of the…
The neutrino produced in the pion decay reveals a new diffraction phenomenon due to many-body interactions in an intermediate time region when wave functions of the parent and daughters overlap. Because of diffraction, the probability to…
The positronium, a bound state of electron and positron is a unique system to perform highly precise tests, due to no hadronic background and precise Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) predictions. Being a system of lepton and antilepton, its…
The two-photon annihilation of a positron with an electron bound in the 1s state of a H-like ion is calculated within the fully relativistic QED framework. The interaction with the nucleus is treated nonperturbatively, thus allowing the…
The elastic collision between two H-like atoms utilizing an ab-initio static-exchange model (SEM) in the center of mass (CM) frame considering the system as a four-body Coulomb problem where all the Coulomb interaction terms in the direct…
The hybridization of light and matter excitations in the form of polaritons has enabled major advances in understanding and controlling optical nonlinearities. Entering the quantum regime of strong interactions between individual photons…
When recent experimental positronium (Ps) formation cross sections in noble gases have been compared with the most up-to date theoretical studies, the agreement is qualitative, but not quantitative. In this paper we re-examine this process…
We employ the impulse approximation for description of positronium-atom scattering. Our analysis and calculations of Ps-Kr and Ps-Ar collisions provide theoretical explanation of the similarity between the cross sections for positronium…
The four-body equations of Alt, Grassberger and Sandhas are solved, for the first time, for proton-${}^3\mathrm{He}$ scattering including the Coulomb interaction between the three protons using the method of screening and renormalization as…
We determine effective collisional radii of positronium (Ps) by considering Ps states in hard-wall spherical cavities. $B$-spline basis sets of electron and positron states inside the cavity are used to construct the states of Ps. Accurate…
Exotic dark matter and dark energy together seem to dominate in the Universe. Supersymmetry naturally provides a candidate for the dark matter constituents via the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). The most important process for…
Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) and positron-electron momentum density (PEMD) studies on multilayers of PbSe nanocrystals (NCs), supported by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), show that positrons are strongly…
Central collisions induced by high energy radioactive beams can be used as a novel means to obtain crucial information about the high density ({\rm HD}) behaviour of nuclear symmetry energy. This information is critical for understanding…
In heavy atoms and molecules, on the distances $a \ll Z^{-1/3}$ from one of the nuclei (with a charge $Z_m$) we prove that $\rho_\Psi (x)$ is approximated in $L^p$-norm, by the electronic density for a single atom in the model with no…
The measurement of the mass differences for systems bound by the strong force has reached a very high precision with protons and anti-protons. The extension of such measurement from (anti-)baryons to (anti-)nuclei allows one to probe any…
We present analysis of a system of three two-level atoms interacting with each other through the dipole-dipole interaction. The interaction manifests between excited state of one of the atoms and the ground state of its nearest neighbour.…
Study of certain angular correlations in the three-photon annihilations of the triplet state of positronium, the electron-positron bound state, may be used as a probe of potential CP and CPT-violating effects in the leptonic sector. We…