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Calculating Particle Lifetimes: A Guide to Unstable Particle Decay
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[QUOTE="HeavyWater, post: 6048510, member: 302846"] Thank you to everyone for your helpful comments. The calculation of the lifetime of positronium is described on p227 of JJ Sakurai's book on Advanced Quantum Mechanics. I didn't think that the volume per unit time of positron decays could be inverted to give the lifetime of a unit volume of positronium. I also didn't think about Fermi's Golden Rules. I had a lot of fun thinking about positronium--I thought that this might be an application of Chaos Theory. Thanks to everyone for your encouragement. [/QUOTE]
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