Triplet Production by Linearly Polarized Photons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The process of electron-positron pair production by linearly polarized photons is used as a polarimeter to perform mobile measurement of linear photon polarization. In the limit of high photon energies, omega, the distributions of the recoil-electron momentum and azimuthal angle do not depend on the photon energy in the laboratory frame. We calculate the power corrections of order m/omega to the above distributions and estimate the deviation from the asymptotic result for various values of omega.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9909323,
title = {Triplet Production by Linearly Polarized Photons},
author = {I. V. Akushevich and H. Anlauf and E. A. Kuraev and P. G. Ratcliffe and B. G. Shaikhatdenov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9909323},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTeX2e, 13 pages, 5 figure files (eps), submitted to Phys. Rev. A