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    Positronium (Ps) is a system consisting of an electron and its anti-particle, a positron, bound together into an exotic atom, specifically an onium. Unlike...
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    Positronium hydride, or hydrogen positride is an exotic molecule consisting of a hydrogen atom bound to an exotic atom of positronium (that is a combination...
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  • Di-positronium, or dipositronium, is an exotic molecule consisting of two atoms of positronium. It was predicted to exist in 1946 by John Archibald Wheeler...
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  • contains one or more exotic atoms. Di-positronium, two bound positronium atoms Positronium hydride, a positronium atom bound to a hydrogen atom "Exotic...
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    positron in positronium can also have identical or parallel spin orientations, which results in an experimentally-distinct form of positronium with a spin 1...
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  • example, the radius of positronium is approximately 2 a 0 {\displaystyle 2\,a_{0}} , since the reduced mass of the positronium system is half the electron...
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  • energy levels of positronium yields α−1 = 137.034(16). Measurements of α can also be extracted from the positronium decay rate. Positronium decays through...
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    positronium. Positronium is a metastable hydrogen-like bound state of an electron and a positron which can exist in two spin states. Para-positronium...
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    nomenclature. Positronium is an onium which consists of an electron and a positron bound together as a long-lived metastable state. Positronium has been studied...
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    muonium ( μ+ e− ) is more similar to atomic hydrogen ( p+ e− ) than positronium ( e+ e− ). Its Bohr radius and ionization energy are within 0.5% of hydrogen...
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    diagram showing the mutual annihilation of a bound state electron positron pair into two photons. This bound state is more commonly known as positronium....
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    scattering List of particles Meitner–Hupfeld effect Pair production Positronium L. Sodickson; W. Bowman; J. Stephenson; R. Weinstein (1970). "Single-Quantum...
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    particle and its own antiparticle. The name "quarkonium" is analogous to positronium, the bound state of electron and anti-electron. The particles are short-lived...
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  • Examples of such atoms include positronium ( e−   e+ ), muonium ( e−   μ+ ), and "true muonium" ( μ−   μ+ ). Of these positronium and muonium have been experimentally...
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  • order to efficiently form positronium (Ps) - even at cryogenic temperatures in Ultra-high vacuum (UHV). A cloud of positronium emerging from the target...
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    within a solid material. Beta particle Buffer-gas trap List of particles Positronium Positronic brain "2022 CODATA Value: electron mass". The NIST Reference...
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    by analogy with positronium, which also consists of a particle and its antiparticle (an electron and positron in the case of positronium). OZI rule List...
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  • it induces oscillations between positronium and mirror positronium. Positronium could then turn into mirror positronium and then decay into mirror photons...
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    from McGill University in 1956 with a thesis entitled "Formation of Positronium in Hydrogen and Helium" and a PhD degree at Cornell University in 1960...
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    source is generated by the charge exchange reaction between Rydberg positronium atoms -- produced via the injection of a pulsed positron beam into a...
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  • other unstable) bound states with less energy by emitting a photon. A positronium "atom" is an unstable bound state of an electron and a positron. It decays...
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    other particles to form various composite particles such as atoms and positronium, while neutrinos rarely interact with anything, and are consequently...
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    = 6.46×10−8 ): The neutral pion has also been observed to decay into positronium with a branching fraction on the order of 10−9. No other decay modes...
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    Hadrons Others Atomic nuclei Atoms Exotic atoms Positronium Muonium Tauonium Onia Pionium Protonium Superatoms Molecules Hypothetical...
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    professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for being the discoverer of positronium. Deutsch was born in Vienna during the First World War to a Jewish family...
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  • Hadrons Others Atomic nuclei Atoms Exotic atoms Positronium Muonium Tauonium Onia Pionium Protonium Superatoms Molecules Hypothetical...
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  • Hadrons Others Atomic nuclei Atoms Exotic atoms Positronium Muonium Tauonium Onia Pionium Protonium Superatoms Molecules Hypothetical...
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    singly ionized helium, and doubly ionized lithium, but it includes positronium and Rydberg states of any atom where one electron is far away from everything...
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    Lander was one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project. Positronium atoms, synthetic penicillin, synthetic self-replicating molecules, and...
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    with a single electron, such as hydrogen, singly ionized helium, and positronium. Although the model itself is now obsolete, the Bohr radius for the hydrogen...
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