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Andreas Wagner Nuclear Physics Division Institute of Radiation Physics
Positron-Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy for Materials Science
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• Motivation Positron Annihilation & Materials Science
• Positron sources From reactors to radio-isotopes to LINACs
• Pulsed beams: annihilation lifetime spectroscopy for thin films, bulk materials, fluids, and gases
MePS – the Monoenergetic Positron Source GiPS – the Gamma-induced Positron Source
• Some apps porous glasses w/ D. Enke (Univ. Leipzig, D) low-k dielectrics w/ A. Uedono (Univ. Tsukuba, JP) MnSi skyrmion lattices w/ C. Hugenschmidt (TU Munich & FRM) 3D tomography w/ some medical physicsts
Outline
Courtesy: R. Krause-Rehberg / M. Butterling
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Fate of positrons in matter
Positrons slow down to thermal energies in 3-10 ps. After diffusing inside the matter positrons are trapped in vacancies or defects.
Kinetics results in trapping rates about 105 times larger than annihilation rates: defect concentrations down to 10-7 are accessible.
e+
free
trapped
self
capture
self
spin-flip
para-Ps
ortho-Ps
2 g
2 g
2 g
2 g
3 g
2 g
0.2 ns
0.5 ns
0.125 ns
1.0 ns
142 ns
1.0 ns
insulators voids
metals (screening)
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Typical types of defects in condensed matter
grain boundaries
dislocations (cluster) vacancies
impurities decorated vacancies
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- Local electron density changes at defects - Lack of positively charged nucleus causes trapping
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Positron trapping model
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- Measurement of decay lifetime is characteristic for defect type - Intensity is sensitive to defect concentration
defect-free bulk
annihilation radiation
defect λbulk
λdefect
κdefect
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Sensitivity limits
Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy
x-ray scattering
optical micro-scopy
n- scatt.
STM/AFM
TEM
optical micro- scopy
TEM
x-ray scattering
n-scatt
Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy
STM/AFM
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Depth distributions for mono-energetic e+
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10 keV 5 keV
3 keV
1 keV
Positron diffusion can be described as random-walk problem with dominant scattering from longitudinal acoustic phonons (in semiconductors and with T < 300 K). Positron trapping or positron annihilation stops further diffusion. Internal electric fields may significantly change diffusion (Fokker-Planck).
surface bulk film substrate
Positron depth in Si
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Sources? Isotopes, reactors, accelerators …! Production of positrons in weak interactions (mediated by W’s)
proton
neutron 27Al(p,n)27Si(β+νe, 4.2 s) 27Al (u d d)
(u d u)
νe e+
W+
Sumitomi Heavy Industries Cyclotron 18 MeV protons, 50 µA beam current
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22Na(β+νe, 2.6 a) 22Ne
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Sources? Isotopes, reactors, accelerators…! Production of positrons through electromagnetic interactions (photons)
e- e+
γ
e-
e-
Use intense source of photons for pair production Capture-neutron gamma-rays from reactor 113Cd(n,γ)114Cd
FRMII Munich KUR Kyoto TU Delft Mc Master North Carolina
AIST, Tsukuba, Japan ELBE, Dresden
Bremsstrahlung from electron accelerators (AIST/Tsukuba, HZDR Dresden) or upcoming high power lasers (Changsha/Wuhan, Osaka/Hyogo, ELI-NP Bucuresti)
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SC-LINAC in CW mode EPOS facility
38 ns / 26 MHz
~ 2.8 GHz / 1 µs / 100 Hz / 10 µA
Positrons from accelerators NC-LINAC in bunched mode
e+
converter
moderator linear storage
chopper buncher A buncher B
sam
ple
1 µs 10 eV 3 ms 5 ns 2 ns 250 ps
e- converter
moderator magnetic transport
chopper buncher
sam
ple
10 ps 2 keV 2 ns 250 ps
e-
e+
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1.6 mA, 40 MeV (64 kW) CW electron accelerator
coherent IR-radiation 3 – 230 µm
coh. THz radiation 100 µm – 3 mm
electrons 34MeV radiation biology
detector tests
Bremsstrahlung 16 MeV
Gamma-induced Positrons
pulsed, mono-energetic positrons 0.2 – 20 keV
Positrons from accelerators
SPONSOR: mono-energetic positrons 0.2 – 30 keV
from 22Na
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mode
High-frequency standing-wave mode with 1.3 GHz corresponding to unit cell length of 11.5 cm.
74,0 W250
mA 1keV 250
P
I
E
1kW 20
mA 1MeV 20
P
I
E
1.8 K LHe tank with LN2-cold shield and super-insulation
Superconducting Accelerator Structures
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Superconducting niobium resonators developed by TESLA Technology Collaboration. Used in FLASH, XFEL,
H. Büttig, et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 704 (2013) 7
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The Mono-energetic Positron Source MePS
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SC-LINAC beam • 30 MeV, 0.1 mA • 1.625 MHz repetition rate
615 ns spacing
2 keV magnetic transport system
4 ns chopper 78 MHz buncher
post-accelerator -1.5 … +20 kV
sample
20 cm Pb + 3.2 m concrete shielding
max 2.5 kV/cm max 500 V/cm
30% HPGe detector for DBS BaF2 detector for PALS
Flux: 1.2·106 e+/s on sample
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Accelerators can produce intense and pulsed slow positron beams. LINear ACcelerators have some advantage due to their high beam power and time structure.
Converter issues
A) normal conducting LINAC E ~ 50 MeV Ipeak ~ 100 mA beam power tbunch ~ 1 µs 500 W frep ~ 100 Hz
B) superconducting LINAC (HZDR) E ~ 35 MeV Iaverage ~ 100 µA beam power frep ~ 1 - 10 MHz 3500 W
sophisticated converter designs and heavy shielding needed
stack of 50 x 100 µm thick W foils
Water-cooled electron to bremsstrahlung converter
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nELBE photoneutron source: LPb loop (450°C) can take 50 kW power in ~ 1cm3
e+
converter
e-
moderator
e+
A.R. Junghans, et al., Nuclear Data Sheets 119 (2014) 349
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The Mono-energetic Positron Source MePS
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PALS (BaF2, plastic scint.)
DBS (HPGe)
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MePS – PALS timing resolution
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Lifetimes of Silicon (218 ps) and Yttria-stabilized Zirkonia can be reproduced, timing resolution is 230 ps with an additional (and stable) lifetime component of 720 ps. Signal to noise ratio: 5·105
Si YSZ
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Experiments at MePS – porous glasses D. Enke, G. Dornberg (U Leipzig): Porous glasses feature a tunable pore width and adjustable surface properties for membranes, chemo-sensors, drug delivery, optical coatings, etc.
Stimulated phase separation in sodium borosilicate glass into silica and an alkali borate phase generates sponge-like porous structures with unknown porosity. H. Uhlig, G. Adouane, C. Bluhm, S. Zieger, R. Krause-Rehberg, D. Enke, J. Porous Materials 23 (2016) 139
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20 µm
glass beads
thin film thin film
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Experiments at MePS – porous glasses Annihilation lifetime experiments reveal depth dependent pore size distributions.
Pore sizes according to modified Tao-Eldrup model by K. Wada and T. Hyodo, JPhysG 443 (2013) 012003.
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2.6 nm
1.8 nm
1.3 nm
1.0 nm
5.0 nm
245
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Experiments at MePS – porous glasses Effect of tempering -> unexpected reduction of porosity.
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2.6 nm
1.8 nm
1.3 nm
1.0 nm
5.0 nm
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MePS – low-k SiO2 Nano-porous organo-silicate glasses
Depending on the specific treatment processes nano-porous structures can be stabilized or not. A. Uedono et al., Appl. Surf. Science 368 (2016) 272
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Future work in films – In-situ AIDA
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Gas loading reactor 20 bar 77 – 900 K
XPS analysis unit
Climate chamber
Motivation • Hydrogen loading and
deloading process, e.g. Hao et al, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1 (2010) 2968
• Hydrogen storage capacity: decoration of defects, e.g. J. Cizek et al., Phys. Rev. B 79 (2009) 054108
• Magnetic properties and open volume defects in Fe60Al40 M.O.Liedke, et al., J. Appl. Phys. 117 (2015) 163908
Duoplasmotron N, O, H < 30 keV 2 mA
Raman spectrometer
e-beam evap. Fe, Co, Ni, Au, Ag, Cr, Pt, Mo
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Future work
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High-voltage cage on top of MePS
UHV system at the 6 MV ion beam for H-depth profiling
XPS analysis and PALS chamber
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@KEK
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What about bulk materials, fluids, gases, or biological stuff …?
e- converter
moderator magnetic transport
chopper buncher
sam
ple
10 ps 2 ns 100 ps
e- radiator
γ
10 ps
sam
ple
e-
e+
10 ps
GiPS The Gamma-induced Positron annihilation Spectroscopy
e+
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Positron beams for material research
Nb foil: 10-3 X0
ps 10σMHz 26fµA 900I
MeV 16E
t
e
e
photon beam 2 cm diameter 108 cm-2 s-1
Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (Coincidence) Doppler Broadening Age-momentum Correlation
Positron production using electron-bremsstrahlung
F.A. Selim, et al. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 495 (2002) 154 M. Butterling, et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 269 (2011) 2623 Y. Taira, et al., Rad. Phys. Chem. 95 (2014) 30
studies performed so far: - animal tissue - semicondudtors, alloys (ZnO, MnSi) - (neutron-activated) reactor materials - water, glycerol from 10°C to 100°C
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Positrons: backgnd for nuclear physics exp’ts
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Hard bremsstrahlung produces a huge amount of positrons via pair production inside the target material. High-energy photons act as a volume source of positrons throughout the entire volume.
Kapton at 16 MeV electron energy
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science cases
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• porous glasses D. Enke (U Leipzig) • Si nano-channels R. Brusa (U & INFN Trento, I) • low-k dielectrics A. Uedono (U & AIST Tsukuba, JP) • low-k dielectrics E. Zschech (TU & IKTS Dresden) • low-k dielectrics N. Köhler (TU & ENAS Chemnitz) • reactor pressure vessel steel F. Bergner (FWI) • ZnO luminescence and scintillation F. A. Selim (U Bowling Green, OH) • MnSi skyrmion lattices C. Hugenschmidt (TU & FRM Munich)
S. Mühlbauer, C. Pfleiderer, et al., Science 323(2009)915
MnSi shows spontaneously formed and topologically stable magnetic vortices. Defect identifications and concentrations in Mn1+xSi published in: M. Reiner, et al., Scientific Reports 6(2016)29109 19 nm
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• porous glasses D. Enke, U Leipzig • Si nano-channels R. Brusa, U & INFN Trento, I • low-k dielectrics A. Uedono, U & AIST Tsukuba, JP • low-k dielectrics E. Zschech, TU & Fraunhofer IKTS Dresden • low-k dielectrics N. Köhler, TU & Fraunhofer ENAS Dresden • reactor pressure vessel steel F. Bergner, HZDR • ZnO luminescence and scintillation F. A. Selim, U Bowling Green, OH • MnSi skyrmion lattices C. Hugenschmidt, TU & FRM Munich
science cases
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Green luminescence in ZnO results from defects (both Zn and O vacancies) passivated by hydrogen. Very fast scintillation lifetimes obtained! Published in: J. Ji, et al., Scientific Reports 6(2016)31238
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High resolution lifetime spectrum with signal to noise ratios of better than 105:1 using gamma-gamma coincidence techniques for background reduction. Lifetime spectra are free from artefacts. → Long lifetimes reveal atomic defects caused by neutron-induced damage. → Can (and how) defects be removed by thermal annealing?
conventional LINAC mode pulsed RF, highest energy typically pile-up problems F.A. Selim, D.P. Wells, J.F. Harmon, et al. Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 495 (2002) 154 SC-LINAC in CW mode highest average power – high yield and low pile-up
38 ns / 26 MHz
~ 1 µs / 100 Hz
Intrinsic radioactive materials: RPV steels
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Physics with GiPS: RPV steel Reactor vessel steel becomes brittle due to neutron-induced defects like open-volume defects seeding cracks.
→ Preferential formation of double vacancies → Thermal annealing (290°C) not sufficient to remove defects!
Collaboration with Reactor Safety Division at HZDR. To be published …
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Physics with GiPS: Kapton®
Annihilation lifetime in Kapton has been under debate for quite some time - > get a measurement without source correction.
→ consistent single positron lifetime of (381 ± 1) ps two components show larger χ2
applied cuts on Germanium and BaF2 detector energy signal reduce background from interactions outside the sample
Kapton
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Physics with GiPS: Fluids Conventional lifetime measurements: → dissolve 22Na and dispose it afterwards Positrons from bremsstrahlung → homogeneously distributed, sharp time stamp Target is temperature-stabilized, continuously circulated, degassed, dry-nitrogen flushed.
Positron Physics Ortho-Positronium (o-Ps) in a fluid forms a bubble given by its zero-point energy and the surface tension. We know estimate the change of the o-Ps pick-off annihilation lifetime with temperature in a bubble created by the o-Ps itself…. R.A. Ferell, Phys. Rev., 108,167, 1957 S.J. Tao, J. Chem. Phys., 56,5499, 1972 M. Eldrup et al., Chem. Phys., 63,51, 1981
fluid
e+
e-
142 ns
125 ps
o-Ps
p-Ps
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Kapton tube target
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Physics with GiPS: Fluids
e+
e-
fluid
20
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2
0
0
0
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48
sin
2
rmrm
hE
kr
krkrj
krjRrR
rR
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ePs
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Ps
stationary Schrödinger eqn.
Ansatz: spherical Bessel fct.
zero-point energy
1st non-trivial solution
A 06.14
A 3.416
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Physics with GiPS: Positron(-ium) Chemistry Experiments with water are in variance with a simple bubble-type model. Extension: chemical reactions between radiolysis products of the slowing-down of the positron → Ps chemistry.
→ Radicals are positron scavengers which reduce annihilation lifetimes. → Extended bubble model including chemistry [S.V. Stepanov et al., Mat. Sci. Forum 607] and energetics of hydrated e+
aq and e-aq (what are the
relaxation times of un-/polar media?) → Chemistry of radiolysis directly accessible since the probe creates the ionization itself
Courtesy: Maik Butterling, S V.Stepanov
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Towards imaging of defects / porosity Material failures impose a significant threat to the integrity and the safety of technical systems. A thorough understanding of the microscopic origin and the development of defects requires advanced methods.
… early days of material analysis … and the quests of today
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Motivation Establish a non-destructive and non-intrusive method which allows for spatially resolved positron-lifetime spectroscopy. Reconstruct PET-like images plus positron annihilation lifetime. Possible Applications (list not complete): • Porosimetry • Medicine in-beam positron lifetime spectroscopy during hard x-ray
tumor therapy • Engineering pre-failure diagnostics of micro fractures
fuel rod inspection
APS Physics & Society Newsletter 2011. R. Hargraves, R. Moir
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Prerequisites • Intense source of positrons with deep penetration (cm) ≈15 MeV X-rays • Accurate time-stamping of positron creation (<10 ps) CW LINAC • Position-sensitive positron detectors (mm) Siemens LSO PET • Time-resolution for lifetime spectroscopy (~100 ps) in-house (physics) • Efficient data acquisition in-house (physics) • 3-D image reconstruction in-house (medicine)
e-
e-
sample
Gamma-induced Positron Spectroscopy
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Towards 2/3-D positron lifetime tomography • Two position-sensitive photon detectors with 169 elements each
LSO-based commercial 13x13 PET pixel detector
4 mm x 4 mm x 20 mm LSO crystals
• Each crystal array read out using 4 PMT • Summed PMT signal -> gamma energy • Correlation of individual PMT signals ->
position • Positron annihilation time given by sum
over all 8 PMT involved
Lutetium oxyorthosilicate Lu2SiO5:Ce
courtesy: university hospital Dresden ©Siemens
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Bremsstrahlung beam
γ
0° 180°
3D reconstruction
Fe
Cu
Al
PTFE
γ
3D tomography applied for the first time using bulk volume positron production. Target is rotated in 2 deg. steps and the image is reconstructed using a cubical (30 mm)3 voxel space and back-projection algorithm.
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Copper
Aluminium
Steel
Maximum Likelihood Expectation Maximization Iterative method for image reconstruction based on a algorithm developed in PET [L.A. Shepp, Y. Vardi, IEEE-MI 2 (1982) 113]. Solves the inversion problem numerically where one
has a system matrix M, an a-priori unknown source
distribution s and a measured distribution r.
rsM ˆ The system matrix has a size of 132 x 132 x 180 x 303 = 138 x 109.
all prompt long step 1
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2nd Iteration
all prompt long
Copper
Aluminium
Steel long gate
short gate
step 2
MLEM
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5th Iteration
all prompt long
Copper
Aluminium
Steel
step 5
long gate
short gate
MLEM
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10th Iteration
all prompt long
Copper
Aluminium
Steel
step 10
long gate
short gate
MLEM
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20th Iteration
all prompt long
Copper
Aluminium
Steel
step 20
long gate
short gate
MLEM
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all prompt prompt / all
Copper
Aluminium
Steel long gate
short gate
MLEM
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all prompt prompt / all
Copper
Aluminium
Steel
MLEM Gating on positron lifetimes with 225 ps timing resolution. Now the Al is clearly discriminated against the surrounding Teflon.
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Lifetime-sensitive analysis B-field coil
Cut through the record coil which reached 91.4 T peak field. Coil is fed by the world’s largest capacitor bank w/ 50 MJ stored energy.
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Copper
Zylon® Teflon
Tomography: B-field coil
48 h measurement time, 316 GB, 1.6 G events 324 M filtered coincidences
y
x z
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Lifetime-sensitive analysis: B-field coil
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Lifetime-sensitive analysis: B-field coil
Now, we select specific voxels and determine the annihilation lifetimes for spatially separated regions. Since the voxel is identified as an ensemble over all possible lines-of-response between two detector crystals, the lifetime distribution is a convolution as well. Some real physics questions needed …
τ = 1.48 ns
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Credits Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf W. Anwand, M. Butterling#, T. E. Cowan*, J. Ehrler*, M.O. Liedke, K. Potzger, T.T. Trinh*, A.W. *also at Technische Universität Dresden #now at TU Delft and many collaborators S.V. Stepanov, D.S.Zvezhinskiy (ITEP, MEPhI) e+ chemistry C. Hugenschmidt, M. Reiner (TU Munich) skyrmion-lattice MnSi F. Selim (U Bowling Green) ZnO luminescence M. Kraatz, E. Zschech (Fraunhofer IKTS) low-k dielectrics A. Uedono (Univ. Tsukuba) low-k dielectrics R. Brusa, L. Ravelli (Univ. Trento) nano-Si for anti-matter D. Enke, G. Dornberg (Univ. Leipzig) porous glasses for catalysts Funding provided by BMBF (05K2013) and the Helmholtz Energy Materials Characterization Platform
Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg
R. Krause-Rehberg, A. G. Attalah, M. Elsayed, E. Hirschmann, M. John, M. Jungmann, A. Müller
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