Published August 28, 2014 | Version v1

Study of High Energy Positron Annihilation in GEANT4

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  • 1. ROR icon European Organization for Nuclear Research

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A high energy positron may annihilate with an electron in atoms not only into two photons, but also into muon pairs or hadrons if the energy is over the energy threshold, 43.69 GeV in laboratory frame with electrons at rest. This report shows modication of high energy electromagnetic processes in GEANT4(version 10.01.b01) in order to include these annihilation processes properly, validation of GEANT4 cross-sections of these processes by theoretical calculation, and the results of simulation for high energy processes in a simple setup. As a results of simulation, both of annihilation to muon pairs and to hadrons happen by the probability of 10-6 to 10-5.

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CDS Report Number
CERN-STUDENTS-Note-2014-130

CERN

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PH - Physics Department
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CMS

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