The infrared response to electron-positron pair annihilation at the Galactic center

1986 ◽  
Vol 301 ◽  
pp. 923
Author(s):  
A. Sternberg
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 854-858
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Bellotti

According to Complete Relativity (an improvement of Special Relativity where a new postulate was introduced: an electron cannot move at average speeds less than  u0 = αc / π  where  α  is the constant of fine structure and  c  is the speed of light), and with the hypothesis that the electron and positron are two three-dimensional electromagnetic spherical standing waves, the electromagnetic standing waves of an electron-positron pair can overlap in the low energy conditions and generate a single  γ ray  of  E = 1.022  MeV.  Instead the actual physical theories consider a model of positron-electron pair annihilation, where conservation of momentum requires the creation of two 511 keV photons moving toward opposite directions. But in the paper we do not consider any photons: there is only a progressive electromagnetic wave compound by two electromagnetic standing waves. Only a thorough test will be able to decide the right model.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kento Asai ◽  
Sho Iwamoto ◽  
Yasuhito Sakaki ◽  
Daiki Ueda

Abstract We study capability of the ILC beam dump experiment to search for new physics, comparing the performance of the electron and positron beam dumps. The dark photon, axion-like particles, and light scalar bosons are considered as new physics scenarios, where all the important production mechanisms are included: electron-positron pair-annihilation, Primakoff process, and bremsstrahlung productions.We find that the ILC beam dump experiment has higher sensitivity than past beam dump experiments, with the positron beam dump having slightly better performance for new physics particles which are produced by the electron-positron pair-annihilation.


2000 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 359-366
Author(s):  
V. Krishan

The square of the four-momentum of a photon in vacuum is zero. However, in an unmagnetized plasma, it is equal to the square of the plasma frequency. Further, the electron-photon coupling vertex is modified in a plasma to include the effect of the plasma medium. I calculate the cross sections of three processes in a plasma—Compton scattering and electron-positron pair annihilation and production. At high plasma densities, the cross sections are found to change significantly. Such high plasma densities exist in several astrophysical sources.


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