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On the production of neutrino pairs by the annihilation of two photons

Alfred W. Tesoro

# On the production of neutrino pairs by the annihilation of two photons

## by Alfred W. Tesoro

Written in English

Subjects:
• Neutrinos.,
• Annihilation reactions.

• Edition Notes

Classifications The Physical Object Statement Alfred W. Tesoro. LC Classifications QC793.5.N422 T47 Pagination ii, 45 leaves ; Number of Pages 45 Open Library OL4933992M LC Control Number 76360961

Neutrino. Cockroft & Walton Experiment. Antimatter. Pair Production. Pair Annihilation. Particle Accelerators. Four Fundamental Forces. Familes of Particles. Quark Model. Fun Stuff! Sitemap Two photons of equal energy, moving in opposite directions are produced. Mathematically. Students should know that the positron, antiproton, antineutron and antineutrino are the antiparticles of the electron, proton, neutron and neutrino respectively. Photon model of electromagnetic radiation, the Planck constant. E=hf; Knowledge of annihilation and pair production and the energies involved.

annihilation show that a singlet collision results in emission of two photons (2γ-ray) in exactly opposite direction according to the center of mass system, each are having an energy of about MeV (= moc 2) [11]. On the other hand a triplet collision gives rise to annihilation . @article{osti_, title = {Neutrino annihilation of an electron-positron pair}, author = {Samsonenko, N V and Lal, K C}, abstractNote = {In this study the authors carry out the analysis of the differential cross sections of the electron-positron pair annihilation process by simultaneously taking into account the spin effects, the interference of the charged and neutral currents, and also.

Pair annihilation When matter collides with its corresponding antimatter, they annihilate one another with the conservation of energy, momentum, and charge. The positron (+e) collides with the electron (-e), annihilating each other into two photons with exactly opposite directions and the same amount of . Examples of particle interactions described in terms of Feynman vertices. 1. neutron decays to a proton, electron and an anti-electron neutrino. 2. pi-plus decays to mu-plus and a muon neutrino. 3. a positive muon decays to a muon antineutrino, a positron and an electron neutrino. 4 K zero decays to a pi-minus and pi-plus via the weak interaction.

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Adshelp[at] The ADS is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX16AC86A. Title: O the Production of Neutrino Pairs by the Annihilation of Two Photons.

Authors: Tesoro, Alfred William: Affiliation: AA(COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.). This is the form of the ω 3 part obtained by ordinary perturbation-theory methods by A. Tesoro:On the production of neutrino pairs by the annihilation of two photons Author: L.

Landovitz, W. Schreiber. One can then ask whether degenerate gases of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos can coexist for a very long period of time. The conservation laws certainly allow annihilation of a neutrino-anti-neutrino pair into photons, but the cross section is very low, because it involves a weak by: 5.

(2 gamma-ray photons are necessary to conserve momentum) and charge. Since the charges cancel at the beginning before the collision there is no net charge at the end reverse process is also possible. Of course the possibility of two photons of the right energy meeting to produce an electron/positron pair is negligible.

Pair Annihilation. Pair Annihilation means the reverse process of pair production. In the pair annihilation, the electron and positron in the stationary state combine with each other and annihilate.

Surely, the particles are disappeared and radiation energy will occur instead of two particles. An antineutrino is an antiparticle of a neutrino that has no electric charge and half-integer spin. A photon is a quantum of energy when the energy is in the form of electromagnetic radiation. In pair production, a photon creates an electron and positron.

In the pair production process, the photon disappears. In particle physics, annihilation is the process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle to produce other particles, such as an electron colliding with a positron to produce two photons.

The total energy and momentum of the initial pair are conserved in the process and distributed among a set of other particles in the final state. Antiparticles have exactly opposite. The para-positronium is the shorter-lived spin state.

The energy released in this annihilation appears as two photons emitted in opposite directions. This transformation of mass into energy, considered as the reverse of pair production, is described as. During the process of annihilation, the positron and the electron annihilate each other, and their rest masses are converted into energy which appears in the for of two keV photons, each moving: A.

at exactly a degree angle to the other B. In the same direction C. In the opposite direction D. Toward the nucleus of the original atom. Two photons are produced in the process (as a single photon only would take away momentum which isn’t allowed, as no outside forces act).

Therefore, the minimum energy of each photon, hfmin is given by equating the energy of the two photons, 2hf min, to the rest energy of the positron and of the electron (i.e.

2hf min = 2E 0, where E 0 is. The former can annihilate into pairs of photons because the latters' masses (zero) are less than the electrons'.

In the case of anti/neutrinos, however, no such lighter particles exist. They can bump into one another and form a Z 0, but the latter is off mass shell so has to decay almost immediately, and the only pair it has enough energy to create when decaying is another anti/neutrino.

The processes of electro-positron annihilation into photons pairs and of pair creation by photon are of interest both theoretically and experimentally. The electron’s antiparticle, the positron, is identical in mass but has a positive charge.

If an electron and positron collide, they will annihilate with the production of two gamma photons. The equivalent to the photon weak interaction mediator is the Z0 and neutrino antineutrino pairs can be formed that way.

The weak interaction is orders of magnitude smaller than the electromagnetic one, and thus the probability of getting pairs of neutrinos-antineutrinos is high only in special situations as in the Big Bang or in a Super Nova explosion where the density of matter is high and there is energy.

The lightest fermion (because we don't usually mean bosons when we talk about pair production) is the electron neutrino; however, neutrinos don't interact with the EM force, so photons won't be directly producing them (indirectly, anything is possible).

The lightest non-neutrino fermion is the electron. The high energy neutrino photon interactions are also of great interest in astrophysics and cosmology. Scattered photons on neutrinos through γν → γν are predominantly circularly polarized due to the left handed nature of neutrinos [6].

In the early universe, the photons and. The photons don't (directly) couple to neutrinos, since the neutrinos are chargeless. So the fast answer is no Neutrino pairs can be produced by the Z-boson decays. The Z decay $Z \rightarrow l \bar{l}$ can also have neutrinos in the place of leptons.

A neutrino (/ n uː ˈ t r iː n oʊ / or / nj uː ˈ t r iː n oʊ /) (denoted by the Greek letter ν) is a fermion (an elementary particle with spin of 1 / 2) that interacts only via the weak subatomic force and gravity. The neutrino is so named because it is electrically neutral and because its rest mass is so small that it was long thought to be mass of the neutrino is much Electric charge: 0 e.

Electron–positron annihilation occurs when an electron and a positron collide. At low energies, the result of the collision is the annihilation of the electron and positron, and the creation of energetic photons: e− + e+ → γ + γ At high energies, other particles, such as B mesons or the W and Z bosons, can be created.

All processes must satisfy a number of conservation laws, including: Conservation of electric. Two photons are not produced in pair production. Pair production is the production of matter-antimatter particle pairs from neutral bosons such as photons, but it does not involve the production of photons specifically.

However, what does involve. Annihilation, in physics, reaction in which a particle and its antiparticle collide and disappear, releasing energy. The most common annihilation on Earth occurs between an electron and its antiparticle, a positron.A positron, which may originate in radioactive decay or, more commonly, in the interactions of cosmic rays in matter, usually combines briefly with an electron to form a quasi-atom.If an electron and a positron encounter each other, they will annihilate with the production of two gamma-rays.

On the other hand, one of the mechanisms for the interaction of radiation with matter is the pair production of an electron-positron pair. Associated with the electron is the electron neutrino.By observing both pair production and pair annihilation, 20th-century physicists were able to prove that light has the characteristics of a particle.

This process of discovery began inwhen the physicist Paul Dirac posited the existence of a positively charged anti-electron, the positron. He did this by taking the newly evolving field of quantum [ ].