Data di Pubblicazione:
2014
Citazione:
Swelling of positronium confined in a small cavity / G. Consolati, F. Quasso, D. Trezzi. - In: PLOS ONE. - ISSN 1932-6203. - 9:10(2014), pp. e109937.1-e109937.5. [10.1371/journal.pone.0109937]
Abstract:
The electron density at the positron (contact density) in the ground state positronium (Ps) formed in condensed matter is generally found to be lower than in vacuum. This is usually attributed to microscopic electric fields which polarize Ps, by acting on the two particles of the atom. In this paper we quantitatively investigate an opposite effect. It is due to the confinement of Ps in small cavities existing in the host solid (e.g. free volume in polymers), which increases the contact density. Although this phenomenon is greater, the smaller is the size of the cavity, Ps polarization seems to play anyway a predominant role.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all); Medicine (all)
Elenco autori:
G. Consolati, F. Quasso, D. Trezzi
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