Does the atom with the nearby nucleus (the one the gamma ray interacts with) heat up during pair production?
Can gamma ray energy be turned into heat? If so, how? I have read some about attenuation, but I still don't fully understand if/how gamma rays can cause something to heat up.
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How can a high energy (above 1 MeV) gamma ray interact with a protium (hydrogen with only a proton in nucleus)? Does it only ionize it? Does it break it up? Does a chain reaction occur where antiparticles are formed and then annihilated, spitting out another gamma ray? I've been...