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Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A

A Journal of Physical Sciences

Editor-in-Chief: Holthaus, Martin

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Volume 41, Issue 8

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Relativistic Electron-Positron Gamma Ray Laser

System, F. Winterberg
Published Online: 2014-06-02 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zna-1986-0804

The prerequisite for an efficient electron-positron gamma ray laser, which is the rapid formation o f a dense electron-positron plasma in a time shorter than the time for pair annihilation, is ideally fulfilled in a relativistic electron-positron superpinch. Because the cross section for annihilation decreases quadratically with the center o f mass energy, the time requirements otherwise imposed, are greatly relaxed. A relativistic electron-positron pinch can collapse under a complete population inversion into a very dense state possessing the form o f a long filament, just as it is required for a gamma ray laser. The gamma ray energies are the total center of mass energies, which can be much larger than the electron-positron rest mass energies.

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Received: 1986-02-19

Published Online: 2014-06-02

Published in Print: 1986-08-01


Citation Information: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, Volume 41, Issue 8, Pages 1005–1008, ISSN (Online) 1865-7109, ISSN (Print) 0932-0784, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zna-1986-0804.

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