Abstract
A novel digital coincidence Doppler broadening (D-CDB) spectrometer was employed for energy resolved investigations of two-quantum annihilation-in-flight (TQAF). The TQAF phenomenon was studied using monoenergetic positrons produced in a slow positron beam and also using fast positrons.
Because of a low background the measurements on the slow positron beam could be performed in a close geometry and the TQAF contribution in the two-dimensional gamma ray energy spectra fills a 'bowl-like' area delimited by a hyperbolic curve and a kinematical cut-off determined by the kinetic energy of positrons. With decreasing positron energy the area of TQAF contribution becomes smaller and disappears completely for slow positrons with energies below similar to 100 eV.
The measurements with fast positrons were restricted to a limited range of angles between the annihilation gamma rays and the TQAF events contribute to a hyperbolic band in gamma ray energy spectrum.