TRIPLET TO SINGLET CONVERSION OF POSITRONIUM IN OXYGEN
- Received Date: 1900-01-01
- Accepted Date: 1900-01-01
- Available Online: 1990-04-05
Abstract: Using a aerogel sample with introduced oxygen gas as a variable energy positronium source,the triplet to singlet conversion of positronium in the elastic and inelastic collisions between positronium atoms and oxygen molecules has been investigated with a time selecting energy spectrometer.We have found that the conversion cross section σ0—p is proportional to 1/v for slow positronium in the elastic collisons,where v is the mean velocity of positronium,and for the inelastic processes,the cross sections are estimated to be σ0—p=2.1×10-17cm2 and 6.6×10-18cm2 respectively at kinetic energies of positronium near two thresholds.