A positron is the antiparticle of the electron. Suppose an electron and a positron collide and...
An electron (rest mass me) of
energy E makes a head-on collision with a positron (positron is
electron’s antiparticle, it has the same mass as electron, but
opposite charge) In collision the two particles annihilate each
other and are replaces by two photons (γ rays) of equal energy,
each traveling at equal angles θ with electron’s direction of
motion. Find 1. The energy of each photon. 2. The momentum p of
each photon. 3. The angle θ.
Problem 3. Electron-positron...
An electron-positron pair
(positron is electron’s antiparticle, it has the same mass as
electron, but opposite charge) can be produced what two photon are
collided. Two photons of frequency ω are collided head-on. What
will be the electron’s momentum? Electron’s rest mass is me
Problem 4. Electron-positron production An electron-positron pair (positron is electron's antiparticle, it has the same mass as electron, but opposite charge) can be produced what two photon are collided. Two photons of frequency w are collided...
An electron and a positron each have a mass of 9.11 ×
10-31 kg. They collide and both vanish, with only
electromagnetic radiation appearing after the collision. If each
particle is moving at a speed of 0.42c relative to the
laboratory before the collision, determine the energy of the
electromagnetic radiation.
Particles before annihilation Burst of EM radiation after annihilation
Problem 4. Electron-positron production An electron-positron pair (positron is electron’s antiparticle, it has the same mass as electron, but opposite charge) can be produced what two photon are collided. Two photons of frequency ω are collided head-on. What will be the electron’s momentum? Electron’s rest mass is me.
Particle Physics
Let's do a little particle physics. Back in the '9os there was a large electron-positron collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, called the "Large electron-positron collider," or LEP for short. (This collider was broken down and rebuilt into an even larger one that runs to this day, called the "Large hadron collider" or LHC.) It was LEP that discovered the W and Z bosons, which mediate weak nuclear processes like the beta decay of free neutrons Anyway, near...
How much energy is released when a positron and aan electron collide? Show all work for full credit.
electron and positron (an electron's antiparticle, having the same mass but opposite charge) form a bound system orbiting a common center. The particles are a distance b from each other and move with the same speed. What is the orbital period of the particles?
2. Electron-positron annihilation A positron with kinetic energy equal to twice its rest mass energy is incident on an electron at rest The positron and electron annihilate creating two photons. One photon goes off at an angle of 30 with respect to the incident positron. Compute the energies of the two photons and find the direction in which the second photon travels
2. Electron-positron annihilation A positron with kinetic energy equal to twice its rest mass energy is incident on...
A positron (the electron's antiparticle) has mass 9.11 x 10-31kg and charge q0 = +e = +1.60 x 10-19 C. Suppose a positron moves directly away from an alpha particle, which has charge q = +2e. The alpha particle is stationary. When the positron is 1.00 x 10-10 m from the alpha particle, it is moving directly away from the alpha particle at 3.00 x 106 m/s. (a) What is the positron's speed when the particles are 2.00 x 10-10 m...
An electron and a positron, each moving at 3.0 x 10^5m/s, collide head on, disappear, and produce two photons moving in opposite directions, each with the same energy and momentum. Determine the energy and momentum of each photon (show your units)