Abstract
Besides the stable electrons also several other leptons with rather short lifetime have been used successfully in solid-state spectroscopy. Most important are positrons and muons. If a positron is accommodated in a solid its lifetime depends critically on the environment and enables thus information to be drawn about the latter. Investigations of this type are known as positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS).
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Kuzmany, H. (1998). Spectroscopy with Positrons and Muons. In: Solid-State Spectroscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03594-8_16
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