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Show that the following process is dynamically impossible: A single photon in empty space is transformed into an electron and a positron.
Hint: use conservation of momentum and energy
for this problem I know a photon has no rest mass and therefore its energy is just equal to pc. However I am unsure about how o go about the proof? I am fairly comfortable obtaining expressions for momentum and energy conservation but what then??
please help
thanks
Hint: use conservation of momentum and energy
for this problem I know a photon has no rest mass and therefore its energy is just equal to pc. However I am unsure about how o go about the proof? I am fairly comfortable obtaining expressions for momentum and energy conservation but what then??
please help
thanks