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In this work, relationships between the free volume and various fundamental physical properties (density, surface tension and transport properties) of ionic liquids were investigated. Two imidazolium ionic liquids…
Various Hamiltonian models have been derived for chemical structures belonging to living organisms while the Hamiltonian concept was not applied to life as a whole. However, Hamiltonian components were recently defined for living organisms…
This talk gives an elementary introduction to the basic properties of positronium. Recent progress in theoretical studies of the hyperfine splitting and lifetime of the ground state is reviewed. Sensitivity of these precisely measured…
Recent experimental data are analyzed, concerning the half-lives of the 229mTh isomer in neutral atoms and various ions. Calculation is performed on the united platform of interplay of traditional and subthreshold resonance conversion.…
Purpose: Measuring the ortho-positronium (oPs) lifetime in human tissue bears the potential of adding clinically relevant information about the tissue microenvironment to conventional positron emission tomography (PET). Through phantom…
Positronium annihilation amplitudes that are computed by assuming a factorization approximation with on-shell intermediate leptons do not exhibit good analytical behaviour. Using dispersion techniques, we find new contributions that…
We present a calculation of the branching ratio of orthopositronium decay into an invisible mode, which is done in the context of Mirror World models, where ordinary positronium can disappear from our world due to oscillation into its…
Lattice thermal conductivities of zincblende- and wurtzite-type compounds with 33 combinations of elements are calculated with the single-mode relaxation-time approximation and linearized phonon Boltzmann equation from first-principles…
Whether in the Standard Model or beyond it, neutrinos contribute to the invisible decay mode of orthopositronium but practically not at all to that of parapositronium. Although this remark does not resolve the orthopositronium decay puzzle,…
The results of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy measurements on undoped, electron irradiated, and Nb doped SrTiO3 single crystals are reported. Perfect lattice and vacancy defect positron lifetimes were calculated using two…
One of the features of the triplet state of positronium (ortho-Positronium)atoms is its relatively longer lifetime when compared to the singlet states ofpositronium (para-Positronium) atoms. The most probable decay of ortho-Positronium is…
Classical motion of positronium embedded in a magnetic field is studied, and computation shows the emergence of chaotic orbits. Recent work investigating quantum behavior of this system predicts extremely long lifetimes. Chaos assisted…
We calculate the lifetime of both the o-Ps and the p-Ps positronium annihilation decay $ Ps\to\gamma\gamma$ in the strong circular polarized laser field. We take a strategy of the factorization to separate the effects caused by the Coulomb…
The results of ab initio calculation of E1 amplitudes, lifetimes,and polarizabilities for several low-lying levels of ytterbium are reported. The effective Hamiltonian for the valence electrons has been constructed in the frame of CI+MBPT…
A living polymers transition is found in molecular dynamics simulations of a charge-symmetric size-asymmetric electrolyte with no anisotropic interactions. The fluid has strong polymeric character at low temperatures, where it consists of…
Nonradiative exciton lifetime in silicon is determined by comparison of the experimental and theoretical curves of bulk minority charge carriers lifetime on doping and excitation levels. This value is used to analyze the influence of…
Positron scattering and annihilation on noble gas atoms below the positronium formation threshold is studied ab initio using many-body theory methods. The many-body theory provides a near-complete understanding of the…
A many-body theory approach is developed for the problem of positron-atom scattering and annihilation. Strong electron-positron correlations are included non-perturbatively through the calculation of the electron-positron vertex function.…
We calculate the inelastic lifetime of an electron quasiparticle due to Coulomb interactions in an electron liquid at low (or zero) temperature in two and three spatial dimensions. The contribution of "exchange" processes is calculated…
Measurements of lifetimes can be done in two ways. For very short lived particles, the width can be measured. For long lived ones, the lifetime can be directly measured, for example, using a displaced vertex. Practically, the lifetime…