Gamma Definition and 685 Threads

i already know radioactivity produces gamma rays. Are there other ways to produce gamma rays in a laboratory, without radioactive substances?

We can see wave length that get compress and get higher in height when they get high energy so how would wavelength react and it how it would look like when it gets high amount of energy(like infinite energy)?

OK, I understand that a gamma ray is just an electromagnetic wave, and so a gamma particle could be a photon, but somehow I think that the author here is not being that sophisticated: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/why-are-washing-machines-learning-to-play-the-harp/594706

I read this question https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/95970/under-what-conditions-is-a-vector-spinor-gamma-trace-free . Also I read Sexl and Urbantke book about groups. But I don't understand why spinors is irreducible if these are gamma-tracelees. Also I read many papers about...

what are Dirac's gamma matrices . especially , does it have many forms?

It is unclear from my text. Can you use the gamma constant to find the absorbed dose for a point source of photons?

is there some physical limit on the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation? Can there be radiation shorter than gamma rays?

Any theory what could be causing the excess gamma ray and the strange dips in the sun? https://www.quantamagazine.org/gamma-ray-data-reveal-surprises-about-the-sun-20190501/ "A decade’s worth of telescope observations of the sun have revealed a startling mystery: Gamma rays, the highest...

I would like to use a known area and values on the x-axis to generate a gamma curve to obtain y values. Please point me in the right direction. A = 0.07 m^2 Values on x axis 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Thank you!

So I worked out the first part and obtained ##E_1 = 478.8MeV##, ##E_2 = 459.4MeV## and ##p = 0.49 MeV/c## but I can't quite wrap my head around the second part. Normally, I'd use the equation for s but I'm confused since I don't know the angle between the gamma rays.

I'm lost. First one was easy to calculate, second one is harder. I have: P{a fails before 2 yrs} = .323325 P{b fails before 2 yrds} = .90844 P{system doesn't fail for 2 years or longer} = .062 P{system does fail before 2 years} = .938 P{A and B fail before 2 yrs} = .29372 P{before 2 years A...

This is my understanding.

How ,exactly, are gamma and beta radiations produced in electron accelerators? Is the process for gamma almost the same as X-ray in linear accelerators? What about beta?

I take an empirical relation of Φ=Φ0(a/a0)n where n=-(dG/dt)/GH ,present study shows n is negative ,implies that G increases with time And using this fact and taking a scale factor of the form sinh(t) ,evaluated ϒ and then plot it with respect to t and got the above figure which is consistent...

I am revisiting the invariant interval spacetime issue , as explained in the book Spacetime Physics by E.F. Taylor and A. Wheeler. The explanation is clear and the invariant interval is correct, based on the data given and this is the whole point I am making, as explained below. In a...

Hi I was wondering what would happen if you use Gamma Rays in a double slit experiment. Would you see the same interference pattern?

Hey guys, I am looking for a database on gamma emission from the first few excited states of known isotopes for a piece of software we are putting together. Any format is fine. Thanks!

My concerns are all about how much shielding would be needed for a nuclear reactor. Would aneutronic He3-He3 fusion produce less energetic photons than fission to be more easily used in more mobile reactors? Obviously very few neutrons are made in this reaction so that leaves the high energy...

how do I calculate the energy of to photons moving in the opposite direction. starting from the same origin.

Which are main absorption modes of matter for gamma rays under about 500 MeV? And how strong is the absorption? For low energies (under 20 MeV) the mechanisms are: 1) Photoelectric absorption - all energies from eV range onwards 2) Compton scattering - all energies enough to displace the...

Hi. If the 4-momentum in SR is given by p = m γ(v) ( 1 , v ) then in the rest frame of a particle the 4-momentum is ( m , 0 , 0 , 0 ) using c=1 units. This uses the fact that because v = 0 then γ(v) = 1. I'm confused about this last sentence. The gamma factor is used for the relative velocity...

I found out that high dose gamma ray exposure is actually easier for the body to repair than low dose gamma ray exposure. At first this made 0 sense to me as higher dose means you are exposed to more gamma rays per second and thus more damage is done. But now that I think about it, I think that...

Hey! :o I want to show that the Gamma function converges and is continuous for $x>0$. I have done the following: The Gamma function is the integral \begin{equation*}\Gamma (x)=\int_0^{\infty}t^{x-1}e^{-t}\, dt\end{equation*} Let $x>0$. It holds that...

A recent post here made me think about this so I wanted to ask. Now a x ray tube working principle is basically the opposite of the photoelectric effect, here instead of photons electrons strike a metal target to deposit their energy which is released as heat (IR radiation) and photons. So the...

with regards to this https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5626 "Gamma ray burst delay times probe the geometry of momentum space" May we have updates of the latest experiment results along the line of Smolin 2011 idea concerning gamma ray burst delay times that can test if momentum space is curved?

How can I show that ##\int_0^\infty e^{-nt}\,t^{x-1}\,dt=\Gamma(x)\,n^{-x}\,## for ##x \geq 1\,##?

Hi, When U-235 captures a neutron, it may end up with a fission reaction or an excited U-236 isotope. This U-236 emits gamma rays as it goes to its ground state. What I want to learn is that how much is the contribution of these gamma rays' energy to overall fission energy. I checked the...

Hi everyone, I have this question about POP. Assume a patient separation of 20cm. Using data for 6MV , FS 10x10 cm, plot the depth dose for one beam at 2 cm intervals. Include on your plot the dose at dmax and the dose at 20-dmax. On the same graph repeat this for the opposed beam. Now plot the...

"It is easily shown" that the gamma 5 matrix anticommutes with the four gamma matrices. Can someone tell me how or provide a link to such proof?

Homework Statement I have data for the count rate (of gamma rays) against the thickness of various materials (Al, Pb, Fe etc...). I want to work out the linear attenuation coefficient. Can I do this by plotting the natural log of count rate against thickness? I don't have values for...

Hi I was reading an article about a gamma ray materials testing camera built into one of the research reactors that worked in my country a while ago. Now I have a few questions regarding some of the issues the article wasn't informing about. It says that they built a special enclosed and...

I have question regarding gamma function. It is concerning ##\Gamma## function of negative integer arguments. Is it ##\Gamma(-1)=\infty## or ##\displaystyle \lim_{x \to -1}\Gamma(x)=\infty##? So is it ##\Gamma(-1)## defined or it is ##\infty##? This question is mainly because of definition of...

Homework Statement I have f(x) = BxB-1e-x^B I need to show that E(Xr) = Ƭ(Gamma)(R/B + 1) Homework Equations I know that E(Xr) = f(x) The Attempt at a Solution Attempt at part of solution I started by saying let u = xB so du = BxB-1dx Can I say then that if u = xB, then Xr = ur/B...

Homework Statement Show that in the chiral (massless) limit, Gamma 5 commutes with the Dirac Hamiltonian in the presence of an electromagnetic field. Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution My first question is whether my Dirac Hamiltonian looks correct, I constructed it by separating the...

Lets say you have your basic fusion reaction D + H → He3 + γ + 5.49 MeV Now exactly how much of the energy is carried away by the gamma ray and how much by the Alfa particle ?

Homework Statement Prove that for a positive integer, p: https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/5859454/I've tried this to little avail for the better part of an hour - I know there's a double factorial somewhere down the line but I've been unable to expand for the correct expression in terms of...

##\Gamma(x)=\int^{\infty}_0 t^{x-1}e^{-t}dt## converge for ##x>0##. But it also converge for negative noninteger values. However many authors do not discuss that. Could you explain how do examine convergence for negative values of ##x##.

Homework Statement Before the discovery of the neutron, it was proposed that the penetrating radiation produced when beryllium was bombarded with alpha particles consisted of high-energy &gamma rays (up to 50 MeV) produced in reactions such as α + 9Be --> 13C + γ a.) Calculate the Q value for...

Homework Statement To show: Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution To be honest, I'm pretty stuck. I could try to use the third identity: ##\Gamma(-k+\frac{1}{2})=\frac{2\sqrt{\pi}}{2^{-2k}}\frac{\Gamma(-2k)}{\Gamma(-k)} ## but this doesn't really seem to get me anywhere. I...

Hello During a simulation of light in gamma-scintillator interaction, it seems that there are a lot of Cerenkov photons. I don't know their contribution to the final intensity (it will need a long time to compute it). The textbooks usually say that the gamma ray will produce secondary...

Here it is a simple problem which is giving me an headache,Recall from class that in order to build an invariant out of spinors we had to introduce a somewhat unexpected form for the dual spinor, i.e. ߰ψ = ψ†⋅γ0 Then showing that ߰ is invariant depends on the result that (ei/4⋅σμν⋅ωμν)† ⋅γ0 =...

I haven't though about this from such a perspective but today while reading wikipedia (yes yes not the best source) I got confused, now the "eV" is said to measure the energy gained by an electron between a potential difference of 1V. I assume particle physicists use this measurement because its...

Hey guys, I am currently running an experiment with Cs-137 multiple sources ranging from 1 to 10 uCi, i have a lead pig with a Cs-137 source at the top and a 1/4" small tunnel drilled through the 2" thick slab inside the pig is the Gieger counter, Using various heavy metals as a shield i seem to...

Where does the 1 in the last line come from? Thank you!

I am not sure if this is entirely correct, but first I am going to say that life on Earth mostly thrives in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and perhaps some infrared and ultraviolet (for some creatures), because it is the frequency range that they were the most exposed to...

Homework Statement Homework Equations I = Io e^-ux The Attempt at a Solution 0.75 = 1 * e^-u1 using algebra... u =2.117 I = 1 * e^-2.117*3 I = 0.00175 Answer is apparently 42.2. Can someone tell me where i went wrong? Thanks for any help as always

Handgun ammunition contains Ba and Sb compounds. Firing a handgun leaves residues of these elements in microgram quantities on the back of ones hand. Such quantities are 1000 times above the detection threshold for neutron activation analysis for Ba and Sb. Assuming a swab is taken from the back...

hi, i was thinking that every function that satisfies the conditions $$f(0)=1$$ $$f(n+1)=(n+1)f(n)$$ could be a generalization of the factorial function, and why the gamma function is the only function that complies with this conditions? I mean why don't exist other functions, or functions...

What would be the energy (eV) of a gamma ray photon with the wavelength h (Planck's length)?

I am aware that in classical electrodynamics a metal exponentially attenuates TEM waves. I am wondering if this fact is sufficient to obtain estimates of the cross section of low energy gamma rays in metals. Obviously it would fail for higher energy gamma rays where Compton scattering and pair...