Evidence of the delayed positronium formation in fused quartz

Komuro, Yo; Hirade, Tetsuya  ; Suzuki, Ryoichi*; Odaira, Toshiyuki*; Muramatsu, Makoto*; Suzuki, Takenori*

Many ions and the excess electrons are formed by the injected positron just before the thermalization of that positron in a small area (it is called spur or blob) in condensed matter. The positron has a chance to form positronium (Ps) with one of the excess electrons. According to the model of Ps formation in the spur (blob), the initial encounter pairs of an electron and a positron will form Ps in short time. Some of the positrons have some possibility to form Ps after diffusion in several hundreds pico-seconds. There were experimental results that were interpreted as a Ps thermalization by a group in Germany more than 10 years ago. However, we have believed that some of the results were caused by the delayed Ps formation and have successfully obtained the experimental evidence of the delayed Ps formation by applying electric fields on the sample, fused quartz.