Positron production in crossed beams of bare uranium nuclei
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 37 (5), 1449-1455
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.1449
Abstract
Positron creation in crossed-beam collisions of high-energy, fully stripped heavy ions is investigated within the coupled-channel formalism. In comparison with fixed-target collisions of highly stripped heavy-ion projectiles positron production probabilities are enhanced by more than one order of magnitude. The increase results from the possibility to excite electrons from the negative energy continuum into all bound states. The positron spectrum is shifted towards higher energies because of the absence of electron screening. Rutherford scattering as well as nuclear collisions with time delay are investigated. We also discuss the filling of empty bound states by electrons from pair-production processes.Keywords
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