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  2. Pair production - Wikipedia

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    Pair production is the creation of a subatomic particle and its antiparticle from a neutral boson.Examples include creating an electron and a positron, a muon and an antimuon, or a proton and an antiproton.

  3. Gamma distribution - Wikipedia

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    Given the scaling property above, it is enough to generate gamma variables with θ = 1, as we can later convert to any value of λ with a simple division. Suppose we wish to generate random variables from Gamma(n + δ, 1), where n is a non-negative integer and 0 < δ < 1.

  4. Matter creation - Wikipedia

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    To create an electron-positron pair, the total energy of the photons, in the rest frame, must be at least 2m e c 2 = 2 × 0.511 MeV = 1.022 MeV (m e is the mass of one electron and c is the speed of light in vacuum), an energy value that corresponds to soft gamma ray photons.

  5. Two-photon physics - Wikipedia

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    Two-photon physics, also called gammagamma physics, is a branch of particle physics that describes the interactions between two photons. Normally, beams of light pass through each other unperturbed. Inside an optical material, and if the intensity of the beams is high enough, the beams may affect each other through a variety of non-linear ...

  6. Breit–Wheeler process - Wikipedia

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    The Breit–Wheeler process is the creation of an electron–positron pair following the collision of two high-energy photons (gamma photons). The nonlinear Breit–Wheeler process or multiphoton Breit–Wheeler is the creation of an electron-positron pair from the decay of a high-energy photon (gamma photon) interacting with a strong electromagnetic field such as a laser.

  7. Gamma ray - Wikipedia

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    A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.It consists of the shortest wavelength electromagnetic waves, typically shorter than those of X-rays.

  8. Decay heat - Wikipedia

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    Decay heat as fraction of full power for a reactor SCRAMed from full power at time 0, using two different correlations. In a typical nuclear fission reaction, 187 MeV of energy are released instantaneously in the form of kinetic energy from the fission products, kinetic energy from the fission neutrons, instantaneous gamma rays, or gamma rays from the capture of neutrons. [7]

  9. Gamma process - Wikipedia

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    Also known as the (Moran-)Gamma Process, [1] the gamma process is a random process studied in mathematics, statistics, probability theory, and stochastics. The gamma process is a stochastic or random process consisting of independently distributed gamma distributions where N ( t ) {\displaystyle N(t)} represents the number of event occurrences ...