Abstract
Measurements are presented of the Doppler broadening of the 511-keV -ray line from thermalized positrons annihilating with Ar, Kr, and Xe. The experiments are conducted at low pressures using positrons stored in a Penning-Malmberg trap, which ensures that only two-body interactions are involved. The contributions from annihilation on inner-shell electrons are studied quantitatively in an isolated atomic system for the first time. The spectra are compared with theoretical calculations using a simple Hartree-Fock model to identify the inner-shell contributions.
- Received 12 February 1997
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.39
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