Positronium formation in a liquid phase: Influence of intratrack reactions and temperature

摘要

This work clarifies some discrepancies between conventional models, used in positron annihilation lifetime (PAL) spectroscopy, and experimental data. The importance of taking into account Ps interactions with primary intratrack radiolytic products is demonstrated, for example, for PAL data in water. We examine the applicability of a nonhomogeneous chemical kinetics approach and of a well-known expression for the reaction rate constantsrnto describe intratrack processes, and show that the prescribed diffusion approximation (PDA) is a reasonable model for this. Moreover, we have derived an analytical expression for the time-dependent reaction rate coefficient, which previously entered PDA as an external parameter. Preliminary fittings of the PAL spectra in H_2O over a wide temperature range indicate that Ps reactions in intratrack processes are diffusion controlled.