Positron collisions with Rydberg atoms in strong magnetic fields

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Mar 2012

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 035018 (2012).

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We have calculated the rates for the processes that result from collisions of positrons with Rydberg atoms in strong magnetic fields. This is the first step in a two-stage charge transfer, which is being explored as a mechanism for the formation of cold anti-hydrogen. Unlike previous theoretical explorations we have also investigated the cases when the energy of the positrons can be comparable to or larger than the binding energy of the atom. We have also examined how big an electric field is needed to destroy the resulting positronium. We find that the charge transfer does not scale as \sqrt {T} for n = 40 states for positron temperatures above T ∼ 25 K. Also, we find that the positronium atoms are more easily destroyed by electric fields if they emerge from the charge transfer along the magnetic field lines, contrary to what might be expected for the \vec {v}\times \vec {B} effective electric field. Both results have implications for the formation of anti-hydrogen atoms.

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