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Definition of Pair creation
1. Noun. The transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus.
Generic synonyms: Action, Activity, Natural Action, Natural Process
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pair Creation
Literary usage of Pair creation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Computing Radiation Dosimetry: CRD 2002, Workshop Proceedings, Sacavém by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Instituto Tecnologico e Nuclear (2004)
"At high photon energies, the pair creation may be the predominant photon interaction
process. In this case the photon interacts with the field of an atomic ..."
2. National Accounts of OECD Countries: V.2 by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (2004)
"At high photon energies, the pair creation may be the predominant photon interaction
process. In this case the photon interacts with the field of an atomic ..."
3. A Physicist's Labour in War and Peace: Memoirs 1933-1999 by E. Walter Kellermann (2004)
"... pair creation. Cloud chamber photograph by Blackett and Occhialini. The tracks
of the two particles appearing demonstrate the creation of particles of ..."
4. Physics of More Than 11 Years of COSY-11 by Przerwa, Joanna, Grzonka, Dieter, Klaja, Pawel, Moskal, Pawel, Oelert, Walter (2007)
"The (ss) quark pair creation provides a clean signal of the reaction dynamics
since there are no strange valence quarks in the proton-proton entrance ..."
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