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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2019/s10/1/d/solution
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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
/
2019
/
S10
/
1
/
d
/
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Codex
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2026-10-25
After
thermalization
, approximate the
electron
and
Positron
as
initially at rest in their
centre-of-momentum frame
. Their total
energy
is
2
m
e
c
2
and total
momentum
is zero. Two
photons
must therefore have equal
energies
and opposite
momenta
, since
∣
p
γ
∣
=
E
γ
/
c
.
Conservation of energy
gives
2
E
γ
=
2
m
e
c
2
,
E
γ
=
m
e
c
2
=
511
keV
.
(1)
Residual
pair
momentum
and
electron
binding
cause
small departures from exact
collinearity
and exact
photon
energy
; the standard
PET
calculation
neglects them.
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