What is the difference between a transmission electron microscope and transmission positron microscope?
There are some serious technical issues that must be solved to gather a bunch of positrons, slow them down and then craft them into a beam. Just so you know. And then there’s all that annoying gamma radiation that results from the annihilation of the positrons when they recombine with an electron. To have a sufficient quantity of positrons to create a usable beam would result in a high radiation load. The positrons are going to undergo mutual annihilation with an electron, remember? Two hot gamma rays will be exiting the annihilation event. Using the instrument will create some high levels of radiation, and might make it advisable to operate the device from across town.
