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Positronium hydride decay into proton, electron, and one or zero photons
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Decay rates of the positronium hydride PsH, a bound state of a proton, a positron, and two electrons, are determined for two rare channels, PsH $\to p^+ e^- \gamma$ and PsH $\to p^+ e^-$. Previous studies overestimated these rates by factors of about 2 and 700, respectively. We explain the physics underlying these wrong predictions. We confirm a range of static PsH properties, including the non-relativistic ground state energy, expectation values of inter-particle distances and their powers, and the three and four particle coalescence probabilities, using a variational method in the Gaussian basis.
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Physics - Atomic Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2208.07907
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.062816