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New data for positronium beam production efficiency are presented. As a converter of positrons to forward-going positronium, O2 has been found to be as good as CO2 from ∼250 to 400 eV. Preliminary data is also presented for the production efficiency from Ar at 2.8 eV.
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Contribution to the Topical Issue “Electron and Positron Induced Processes”, edited by Michael Brunger, Radu Campeanu, Masamitsu Hoshino, Oddur Ingólfsson, Paulo Limão-Vieira, Nigel Mason, Yasuyuki Nagashima and Hajime Tanuma.
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Shipman, M., Brawley, S.J., Sarkadi, L. et al. Collimated positronium production from gases. Eur. Phys. J. D 68, 75 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2014-40791-5
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