Precision measurements of positronium decay rate and energy level

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1037, Issue , 2008, Pages 43-55

  Asai, S ^a   Kataoka, Y ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a   Namba, T ^a   Suehara, T ^a   Akimoto, G ^a   Ishida, A ^a   Hashimoto, M M ^a   Saito, H ^a   Idehara, T ^b   Yoshida, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decay rate; HFS; Positronium; QED

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867731205     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2977855     Document Type: Article

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