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I wonder why are there two photons entering in a) pair production? Isn't it one photon resulting in $e^+e^-$ ?
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I wonder why are there two photons entering in a) pair production? Isn't it one photon resulting in $e^+e^-$ ?
It is not possible to satisfy both energy and momentum conservation with only one photon.