V. A. Zaytsev,
A. V. Volotka,
D. Yu,
S. Fritzsche,
X. Ma,
H. Hu,
and V. M. Shabaev
Ab initio QED Treatment of the Two-Photon Annihilation of Positrons with Bound Electrons
Phys. Rev. Lett., 123 :093401 (August 2019)
Ab initio QED Treatment of the Two-Photon Annihilation of Positrons with Bound Electrons
Phys. Rev. Lett., 123 :093401 (August 2019)
Abstract:
The process of a positron—bound-electron annihilation with simultaneous emission of two photons is investigated theoretically. A fully relativistic formalism based on an ab initio QED description of the process is worked out. The developed approach is applied to evaluate the annihilation of a positron with K-shell electrons of a silver atom, for which a strong contradiction between theory and experiment was previously stated. The results obtained here resolve this longstanding disagreement and, moreover, demonstrate a sizable difference with approaches so far used for calculations of the positron—bound-electron annihilation process, namely, Lee’s and the impulse approximations.