Mechanisms of positron annihilation on molecules

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227201-2272013

  Gribakin, G F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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