https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612304003
Search for bound-state electron+positron pair decay
1 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
2 Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
3 Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
4 Helmholtz-Institut Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
5 Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
6 St. Petersburg State University, Ulyanovskaya str. 1, Petrodvorets, 198504 St. Petersburg, Russia
7 Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
8 Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
a e-mail: Y.Litvinov@gsi.de
b e-mail: Matthew.Reed@anu.edu.au
Published online: 5 September 2016
The heavy ion storage rings coupled to in-flight radioactive-ion beam facilities, namely the ability to produce and store for extended periods of time radioactive nuclides in high atomic charge states, for the searchof yet unobserved decay mode – bound-state electron-positron pair decay.
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