pair production in English
noun
1
the conversion of a radiation quantum into an electron and a positron.
The fact that pair production always results in equal numbers of particles and antiparticles poses a cosmological question: why is antimatter so rare?
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1. Attenuation coefficient including the Compton scattering and the photoelectric and pair production absorptions
2. The researchers’ work showed evidence from muon pair production measurements that these distributions of Antiquarks are significantly different, with more abundant “down” type antimatter quarks
3. Can you produce a proton-Antiproton pair from a photon in a way analogous to electron-positron pair production? The answer to this is yes, it's definitely possible