Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1871179 Physics Procedia 2015 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

The energy and momentum conservation laws prohibit positron-electron annihilation in vacuum producing the single photon only. It can produce two photons in vacuum, or the process is possible with a participation of the third body. The situation is different in a single crystal with one of the leptons (e.g. positron) moving in the channeling (or in the quasi-channeling) mode when the transverse motion of a particle is bound or sufficiently uneven. It may increase the probability of the single photon annihilation process.

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