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PAIR PRODUCTION

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 PAIR PRODUCTION

 INTODUCTION
 PHYSICAL DEMONSTRATION
 HISTORY
 RELATION WITH EINSTEIN EQUATION
 ENERGY TRANSFER
 APPLICATIONS
 INTRODUCTION

 Pair production is formation or materialization of two electrons, one negative

and the other positive (positron), from a pulse of electromagnetic energy
 traveling through matter, usually in the vicinity of an atomic nucleus. It is also
known as materialization of energy.
 Pair production is a direct conversion of radiant energy to matter. It is one of the
principal ways in which high-energy gamma rays are absorbed in matter.
 Examples includes creating an electron and a positron, a muon and an antimuon,
or a proton and an antiproton.
 Pair production is a high energy phenomena in energy-matter interaction.
 Energy required to carry out this process is 1.02 Mev. The surplus energy is
carried out by the particles as kinetic energy.
PHYSICAL DEMONSTRATION
 HISTORY

 The pair production phenomena was first predicted by a British

physicist P.A.M. Dirac in 1925.
 The purpose for looking at pair production is it provides an
example of where the physical world seemed to create
something from nothing.
 That understanding, in turn, can help us understand how our
inner world can be directly reflected in the outer.
 Pair production is about how energy transforms from a
massless photon into a particle and antiparticle with mass.
 It essence it is about creating something (particles with mass)
from nothing (energy without mass). Pair Production from the Sea of
Negative Mass”.
 RELATION WITH EINSTEIN
EQUATION
  Sometimes, a photon turns into a particle and its
antiparticle, for example, an electron and a positron.  It
could not turn into just an electron, since this would
leave the lepton number unbalanced. The photon must
have enough energy to create the masses of the two
particles. The energy required to create one of the
particles is given by:
E=
 where m is the mass of the particle, and c is the speed of
light (3 x 108 ms−1). However, two particles must be created.
Since the two particles are each other's antiparticle, they
have identical masses. So, the total energy required is:
Eo
 Here,
Eo >
 Because,
Eo
 ENERGY TRANSFER

The energy transfer to electron and positron in pair production

interactions:
 PARTICLES PRODUCED
Following are the particles produced due to energy matter interaction known as
pair production:
 Positron
 Electron
 Proton
 Many other fundamental particles