Ortho-positronium annihilation in room temperature ionic liquids

Hirade, Tetsuya  

The positron annihilation lifetime measurements in RTILs showed very strange results. Finally, positron annihilation age-momentum correlation (AMOC) measurements indicated that it was caused by slow bubble formation in RTILs. Then I discovered the oscillation of o-Ps annihilation rates in room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) which indicated, probably, the oscillation of the Ps bubble. Stepanov et al. calculated change of the bubble size in many liquids and the oscillation of the bubble was not expected except for a liquid He. It means that the structure of RTILs in nanometer scale is very different from usual liquids. Moreover, o-Ps pick-off annihilation rates seems to be too small for the macroscopic surface tension of RTILs. I am going to discuss what you can study by the positron annihilation methods for the structure of RTILs in nanometer scale.