(1) Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ul. Bol’shaya Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow, 117218, Russia;(2) Moscow State Institute of Electronic Engineering (Technical University), Zelenograd, Moscow oblast, 124498, Russia
Abstract:
It is shown that total positron scattering on acoustic and optical lattice vibrations in atomic semiconductors and ionic crystals causes total positron thermalization before annihilation at both high and low (T≤10 K) temperatures.