Triplet Production by Linearly Polarized Photons
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/ 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, !, 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/! to the above distributions and estimate the deviation from the asymptotic result for various values of !.
Journal: Physical Review A