Slowing-down of positronium: Analysis of the age-momentum correlation

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 411-426

  Seeger, Alfred ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age momentum correlation; Hermite polynomials; Lifetime resolution function; Positronium; Positronium age; Slowing down

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FUNCTIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; PROTONS;

AGE MOMENTUM CORRELATION; HERMITE POLYNOMIALS; LIFETIME RESOLUTION FUNCTION; POSITRONIUM; TIME RESOLUTION FUNCTION;

POSITRONS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DESTRUCTION; ENERGY; GAMMA IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POSITRON; POSITRONIUM; RADIOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0034214407     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-806X(00)00194-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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