Inseparable positron annihilation and positronium formation in positron-atom collisions: Description in terms of an absorption potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4 A, 2003, Pages

  Igarashi, Akinori ^a   Kimura, Mineo ^b   Shimamura, Isao ^c   Toshima, Nobuyuki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONS; HAMILTONIANS; HYDROGEN; INTEGRATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; VELOCITY;

ABSORPTION POTENTIAL; COULOMB POTENTIALS; POSITRON-ATOM COLLISIONS; POSITRONIUM FORMATION;

POSITRONS;

EID: 0346215914     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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