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A dynamical system of equations describing parametric sound generation (PSG) in a dispersive large aspect ratio resonator is derived. The model generalizes previously proposed descriptions of PSG by including diffraction effects, and is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor J. Sanchez-Morcillo

A problem to account for the direct electron-positron annihilation in positron-hydrogen scattering above the positronium formation threshold has been resolved within the time independent formalism. The generalization of the optical theorem…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-02-03 S L Yakovlev , C-Y Hu , D Caballero

Positronium (Ps) formation on the surface of clean polycrystalline copper (Cu), highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and multi layer graphene (MLG) grown on a polycrystalline copper substrate has been investigated as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 V. A. Chirayath , A. J. Fairchild , R. W. Gladen , M. D. Chrysler , A. R. Koymen , A. H. Weiss

We present diffraction patterns from micron-sized areas of mono-crystalline graphite obtained with an ultracold and ultrafast electron source. We show that high spatial coherence is manifest in the visibility of the patterns even for…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. W. van Mourik , W. J. Engelen , E. J. D. Vredenbregt , O. J. Luiten

Following recent theoretical results, it is suggested that positronium (Ps) might undergo spontaneous oscillations between two 4D spacetime sheets whenever subjected to constant irrotational magnetic vector potentials. We show that these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Sarrazin , Fabrice Petit

We study light diffraction in the periodically modulated ultrathin metal films both analytically and numerically. Without modulation these films are almost transparent. The periodicity results in the anomalous effects, such as suppression…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 I. S. Spevak , A. Yu. Nikitin , E. V. Bezuglyi , A. Levchenko , A. V. Kats

The spherically averaged structure function $\soq$ obtained from pulsed neutron powder diffraction contains both elastic and inelastic scattering via an integral over energy. The Fourier transformation of $\soq$ to real space, as is done in…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 D. A. Dimitrov , D. Louca , H. Röder

The Fraunhofer diffraction of quantum particles from materials with sharp electron-density edges or symmetric bond structures is ubiquitous. In contrast, diffraction from atoms with characteristic asymptotically-diffused electron…

Positronium (Ps) has emerged as a promising test particle within the QUPLAS collaboration for investigating the gravitational effect. In this work, we present a novel approach to generate a monoenergetic and highly coherent Ps beam by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 M. Sacerdoti , V. Toso , G. Vinelli , G. Rosi , L. Salvi , G. M. Tino , M. Giammarchi , R. Ferragut

Scattering of positronium (Ps) by sodium and potassium atoms has been investigated employing a three-Ps-state coupled-channel model with Ps(1s,2s,2p) states using a time-reversal-symmetric regularized electron-exchange model potential…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sadhan K. Adhikari , Puspajit Mandal

Scattering of positronium (Ps) by helium atom has been investigated in a three-Ps-state coupled-channel model including Ps(1s,2s,2p) states using a recently proposed time-reversal-symmetric regularized electron-exchange model potential.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sadhan K. Adhikari

In this II, a probability to detect the neutrino produced in a high-energy pion decay is shown to receive the large finite-size correction. The neutrino interacts extremely weakly with matters and is described with a many-body wave function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-26 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

Negative refraction is known to occur in materials that simultaneously possess a negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability; hence they are termed negative index materials. However, there are no known natural materials that…

The coherence of polaritons plays a fundamental role in numerous recent experimental observations, from strong coupling to Bose-Einstein condensation, but accessing the coherence of polaritons is a difficult task due to the high energy of…

Reflection-refraction properties of photonic barriers, formed by dielectric gradient nanofilms, for inclined incidence of both S- and P-polarized electromagnetic (EM) waves are examined by means of exactly solvable models. We present…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Shvartsburg , Vladimir Kuzmiak , Guillaume Petite

X-ray photoelectron diffraction is a powerful tool for determining the structure of clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces. Extending the technique into the ultrafast time domain will open the door to studies as diverse as the direct…

Recent experimental advances in Positronium (Ps) physics have made it possible to produce dense Ps ensembles in which Ps-Ps interactions may occur, leading to the production of Ps$_2$ molecules and paving the way to the realization of a Ps…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Erika Cortese , David B. Cassidy , Simone De Liberato

Metal films grown on Si wafer perforated with a periodic array of subwavelength holes have been fabricated and anomalous enhanced transmission in the mid-infrared regime has been observed. High order transmission peaks up to Si(2,2) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xu Fang , Zhiyuan Li , Yongbing Long , Hongxiang Wei , Rongjuan Liu , Jiyun Ma , M. Kamran , Huaying Zhao , Xiufeng Han , Bairu Zhao , Xianggang Qiu

We suggest that the observed large annihilation rates of ortho-positronium ($o$-Ps) in halogen gases are due to the process of dissociative Ps attachment, ${\rm Ps} + X_2 \to {\rm Ps}X + X$, where $X$ stands for a halogen atom. This process…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 R. S. Wilde , G. F. Gribakin , I. I. Fabrikant

We derive a universal bound on the integrated total scattering cross-section at \emph{finite} energies, expressed in terms of a single low-energy coefficient constrained by the non-perturbative S-matrix Bootstrap. At high energies, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Miguel Correia , Alessandro Georgoudis , Andrea L. Guerrieri