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On the annihilation radiation of the positron

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Otto Klemperer
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Boron and carbon activated by diplon and proton bombardment have been used as positron emitting sources in experiments on the annihilation radiation.

By coincidence counting with two Geiger-Müller tubes it has been established that the radiation is emitted in pairs.

By the coincidence method of Becker and Bothe it has been shown that the annihilation radiation consists only of “soft” quanta.

By ordinary absorption measurements it has been shown that the annihilation radiation is homogeneous with a hardness corresponding to 0·5 million e-volt.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1934 , pp. 347 - 354
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1934

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