Relativistic three-body recombination with the QED vacuum.
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چکیده
Electron-positron pair annihilation into a single photon is studied when a second free electron is present. Focussing on the relativistic regime, we show that the photon emitted in the three-lepton interaction may exhibit distinct angular distributions and polarization properties. Moreover, the process can dominate over two-photon annihilation in relativistic electron-positron plasmas of few-MeV temperature. An analogy with three-body recombination of electrons with ions is drawn.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 107 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011