Relativistic three-body recombination with the QED vacuum

Details Relativistic three-body recombination with the QED vacuum Relativistic three-body recombination with the QED vacuum

2011-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/1105.0279v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages, 4 figures

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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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