Modeling the momentum distributions of annihilating electron-positron pairs in solids
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Rights: © 2006 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Makkonen, I. & Hakala, M. & Puska, Martti J. 2006. Modeling the momentum distributions of annihilating electron-positron pairs in solids. Physical Review B. Volume 73, Issue 3. 035103/1-12. ISSN 1550-235X (electronic). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.73.035103, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.035103.
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