Colloquium: Positronium physics and biomedical applications

SD Bass, S Mariazzi, P Moskal, E Stępień - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Positronium is the simplest bound state, built of an electron and a positron. Studies of
positronium in vacuum and its decays in medium tell us about quantum electrodynamics …

Positronium Laser Cooling via the Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse

LT Glöggler, N Gusakova, B Rienäcker, A Camper… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report on laser cooling of a large fraction of positronium (Ps) in free flight by strongly
saturating the 1 3 S-2 3 P transition with a broadband, long-pulsed 243 nm alexandrite laser …

[PDF][PDF] CIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments

M Volponi, S Huck, R Caravita, J Zielinski… - EPJ Quantum …, 2024 - Springer
A powerful and robust control system is a crucial, often neglected, pillar of any modern,
complex physics experiment that requires the management of a multitude of different …

Antihydrogen formation from laser-assisted antiproton-positronium collisions

K Lévêque-Simon, PA Hervieux - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
The formation of antihydrogen atoms from three-body collisions between positronium atoms
and antiprotons plays a crucial role in the gravitational behavior of antihydrogen at rest …

Forward emission of positronium from nanochanneled silicon membranes

S Mariazzi, B Rienäcker, R Magrin Maffei, L Povolo… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Positronium beam formation and manipulation are required in several fundamental
experiments. Efficient positron/positronium conversion in transmission configuration would …

Synthesis of cold and trappable fully stripped highly charged ions via antiproton-induced nuclear fragmentation in traps

G Kornakov, G Cerchiari, J Zieliński, L Lappo… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The study of radioisotopes as well as of highly charged ions is a very active and dynamic
field. In both cases, the most sensitive probes involve species trapped in Penning or Paul …

Classical modeling of positronium cooling in silicon nanochannel plates

F Guatieri, S Mariazzi, C Hugenschmidt, RS Brusa - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Silicon nanochannel plates (NCPs) are employed in a variety of experiments as sources of
cold positronium (Ps) via positron to Ps conversion. Despite the widespread use of NCPs, no …

J-PET detection modules based on plastic scintillators for performing studies with positron and positronium beams

S Sharma, J Baran, RS Brusa, R Caravita… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The J-PET detector, which consists of inexpensive plastic scintillators, has demonstrated its
potential in the study of fundamental physics. In recent years, a prototype with 192 plastic …

[PDF][PDF] New Bunched Positron Beam at the AntiMatter Laboratory in Trento: Planned Quantum Experiments with Positronium.

S Mariazzi, R Caravita, L Penasa… - Acta Physica …, 2024 - przyrbwn.icm.edu.pl
The production of clouds of positronium (Ps) in vacuum has opened the route for the
realization of precise spectroscopy measurements and new experiments with this exotic …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic characterization of a Ne, Ar, Kr rare-gas moderated positron beam and spin polarization measurements

L Povolo, S Mariazzi, M Bettonte, L Penasa… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work we report on the systematic characterization of a rare-gas moderated
magnetically-transported continuous positron beam based on a 22 Na radioactive source …