Abstract

High precision long-slit and cross-slit geometry angular distributions of annihilation radiation from oriented germanium are presented. The momentum distributions from the long-slit measurements are compared with recent Compton profile data to test the importance of the positron wavefunction and positron-electron correlations. Evidence for Umklapp annihilation is discussed. No observable differences are found between distributions from heavily doped and intrinsic germanium samples. Differences in the angular distributions between 5 K and 300 K are attributed to positron thermal motion, and the results are analyzed by a new method to obtain an estimate of the positron effective mass.

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