Ionizing Collisions by Positrons and Positronium Impact on the Inert Atoms

Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 56, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-47

  Laricchia, G ^a   Armitage, S ^a   Kover A ^b   Murtagh, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH ATOMKI   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Atomic excitation and ionization; Electron and positron beams; Electron and positron scattering; Positron scattering; Positronium; Positronium formation; Positronium in atomic and molecular physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249120534     PISSN: 1049250X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-250X(08)00010-4     Document Type: Review

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