1. The J-PET detector—a tool for precision studies of ortho-positronium decays
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Magdalena Skurzok, R. Y. Shopa, Marek Palka, N. Chug, Antoni Rucinski, J. Gajewski, Shivani, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr, Ewa Stępień, Bożena Zgardzińska, Muhsin Mohammed, Kamil Dulski, J. Chhokar, Wojciech Krzemien, H. Karimi, Konrad Klimaszewski, M. Dagdar, Bożena Jasińska, Steven D. Bass, Grzegorz Korcyl, P. Kopka, K. Kacprzak, Lech Raczyński, Łukasz Kapłon, Aleksander Gajos, R. Del Grande, F. Tayefi, N. Krawczyk, Ewelina Kubicz, D. Kisielewska, Eryk Czerwiński, Piotr Małczak, Monika Pawlik-Niedźwiecka, Wojciech Wiślicki, J. Raj, Sushil K. Sharma, Catalina Curceanu, Marek Gorgol, Sz. Niedźwiecki, Michał Silarski, Michał Pędziwiatr, Paweł Moskal, Paweł Kowalski, and Tomasz Kozik
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Photon ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Quantum entanglement ,STRIPS ,Scintillator ,01 natural sciences ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Positronium ,law.invention ,Nuclear physics ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,Spectroscopy ,Nuclear Experiment ,Instrumentation ,Physics ,business.industry ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Polarization (waves) ,Semiconductor ,business - Abstract
The J-PET tomograph is constructed from plastic scintillator strips arranged axially in concentric cylindrical layers. It enables investigations of positronium decays by measurement of the time, position, polarization and energy deposited by photons in the scintillators, in contrast to studies conducted so far with crystal and semiconductor based detection systems where the key selection of events is based on the measurement of the photons energies. In this article we show that the J-PET tomograph system is capable of exclusive measurements of the decays of ortho-positronium atoms. We present the first positronium production results, its lifetime distribution measurements and discuss estimation of the influence of various background sources. The tomograph s performance demonstrated here makes it suitable for precision studies of positronium decays including entanglement of the final state photons, positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy plus molecular imaging diagnostics., 12 pages, 7 figures
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- 2021
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