Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE

Amount

$610,000.00

Award Date

8/17/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Positronium, with the chemical symbol Ps, is a very light form of hydrogen atom consisting only of an electron bound to an anti-electron or positron. Being composed of equal amounts of matter and antimatter, the Ps atom lives for only a fraction of a micr