TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF POSITRONIUM DIFFUSIVITY IN ALKALI HALIDE CRYSTALS

I. V. Bondarev

The Institute of Nuclear Problems at the Belarusian State University, Bobruiskaya St. 11, 220050 Minsk, Belarus


The temperature dependence of the diffusivity of delocalized positronium atom scattered on longitudinal acoustic photons in alkali halide crystals has been investigated theoretically. The detailed calculations including the non-elastic scattering at low temperature and the influence of the positronium scattering form-factor have been performed within the relaxation time approximation. The diffusion of self-trapped positronium is analyzed qualitatively. The results obtained are in good agreement with known experimental data.