Exact annihilation energy and proper decay time solution of a para-positronium system

TL;DR

This paper presents an exact, covariant relativistic solution for the energy and decay time of para-positronium, providing fundamental insights into its annihilation process and potential applications in medical and spectroscopy fields.

Contribution

It introduces a fully covariant relativistic two-body equation solution for para-positronium without approximations, revealing detailed spectral properties including decay time.

Findings

Calculated total annihilation energy and binding energy.

Determined proper decay time of para-positronium.

Spectral properties can inform medical and spectroscopy applications.

Abstract

Para positronium composed by an electron-antielectron pair is an unstable system decaying into two high energetic gamma photons via self annihilation process, due to the conservation of the charge conjugation parity in electromagnetically interacting systems. Therefore, the spectrum covering all fundamental properties of the para-positronium system includes an imaginary part corresponding to the proper decay time besides the real parts corresponding to the total annihilation energy and binding energy, simultaneously. The para-positronium can be regarded as relativistic two body system in which there exist a Coulomb interaction force between the oppositely charged particles. Because of the annihilation condition, ($l=0$), and total spin of the system, ($S=0$), the problem is solved in 1+1 dimensional spacetime background by using fully covariant relativistic two body equation, without any approximation. Adopting the obtained spectra to an electron-antielectron pair we find total annihilation energy, binding energy and proper decay time of the para-positronium system. Since the obtained spectra shows the fascinating properties of the system, our findings can shed light to medical monitoring processes, positron annihilation spectroscopy in any system and gamma-ray laser studies.