Collisions involving antiparticles

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1755, 1999, Pages 1259-1277

  Laricchia, G ^a   Charlton, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antihydrogen; Antiprotons; Atomcule; Positron annihilation; Positron impact ionization; Positronium formation; Positronium scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347507468     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0373     Document Type: Article

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