• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Studies of discrete symmetries in decays of positronium atoms
  • Contributor: Czerwiński, Eryk; Curceanu, Catalina; Dulski, Kamil; Gajos, Aleksander; Gorgol, Marek; Heczko, Andrzej; Hiesmayr, Beatrix C.; Jasińska, Bożena; Kisielewska, Daria; Korcyl, Grzegorz; Korzeniak, Bartłomiej; Kowalski, Paweł; Kozik, Tomasz; Krzemień, Wojciech; Kubicz, Ewelina; Migdał, Wojciech; Mohammed, Muhsin; Niedźwiecki, Szymon; Pałka, Marek; Pawlik-Niedźwiecka, Monika; Raczyński, Lech; Raj, Juhi; Rudy, Zbigniew; Sharma, Sushil; [...]
  • imprint: EDP Sciences, 2018
  • Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201818101019
  • ISSN: 2100-014X
  • Keywords: General Earth and Planetary Sciences ; General Engineering ; General Environmental Science
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  • Description: <jats:p>A positronium - a bound state of electron and positron - is an eigenstate of parity and charge conjugation operators which decays into photons. It is a unique laboratory to study discrete symmetries whose precision is limited, in principle, by the effects due to the weak interactions expected at the level of 10<jats:sup>−14</jats:sup> and photon-photon interactions expected at the level of 10<jats:sup>−9</jats:sup>.</jats:p> <jats:p>The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is a detector for medical imaging as well as for physics studies involving detection of electronpositron annihilation into photons. The physics case covers the areas of discrete symmetries studies and genuine multipartite entanglement. The J-PET detector has high angular and time resolution and allows for determination of spin of the positronium and the momenta and polarization vectors of annihilation quanta. In this article, we present the potential of the J-PET system for studies of discrete symmetries in decays of positronium atoms.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access