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Frank Herbert Attix (Auth.) Assorbimento Fotoni - Introduction To Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry (1986) - 141-176-28

This document summarizes the kinematics of triplet production from a high-energy photon interacting with an electron. It shows the process in both the laboratory frame of reference and the null-momentum frame where the total momentum of the photon-electron system is zero. In the null-momentum frame, the photon is annihilated and an electron-positron pair is created at rest with a total mass equal to the minimum required photon energy for the process.

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Frank Herbert Attix (Auth.) Assorbimento Fotoni - Introduction To Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry (1986) - 141-176-28

This document summarizes the kinematics of triplet production from a high-energy photon interacting with an electron. It shows the process in both the laboratory frame of reference and the null-momentum frame where the total momentum of the photon-electron system is zero. In the null-momentum frame, the photon is annihilated and an electron-positron pair is created at rest with a total mass equal to the minimum required photon energy for the process.

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IV.

PAIR PRODIJCTION 151

In laboratory frame In null-momentum frame


of reference R. of reference R:

- e
photon

energy = hv
4
(at rest 1
mass=m,
--
lelocity o f d n ~ . r ios~+ p c
photon

enerqy=hv' mass=m
4

mom.= hv c mom.=v mom=-mlgc


T=c*(m-rn.~
v=-@
L , [F-mpc=o]

Qi
411 electrons move in photon Photon onnihiloted, and
direction. 8 ~ c r e o t e d . o 1 ~ e ~ c t matnrest.
s
C

FIGURE 7.19. Triplet-production kinematics at the minimum photon energy threshold, hv =


hvmi,,. Diagrams at left apply to the laboratory frame of reference R, those at right to moving
frame of reference R'. The momentum of the photon-electron system is zero in R'.

Substitution of Eq. (7.46) to eliminate v' in Eq. (7.45) allows solution for 0:
a!
p=- (7.47)
l+a!

in which
hv
(7.48)

The minimum photon energy, hvmin,necessary for triplet production can be de-
rived by noting that the sum of the photon energy hvki, and the electron kinetic energy
Trelative to R' mustjust equal the total rest massofthe electron and positron created.
That is,

(7.49)

where

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