80 Years of Positron Annihilation Radiation

• Authors: T. Goworek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Short history of the investigations of annihilation radiation is presented, from early experiments with ThC" to the introduction of two main methods: angular correlation of annihilation quanta and positron lifetime spectroscopy.

Keywords

EN

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Discipline

• 01.65.+g: History of science

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 125
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 685-687

Dates

published

2014-03

Contributors

author

T. Goworek

• Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.125.685