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arxiv: astro-ph/9703069 · v1 · submitted 1997-03-11 · 🌌 astro-ph

The Pair Production Spectrum from Photon-Photon Annihilation

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We present the first completely analytical computation of the full differential \gamma-\gamma pair production rate from compact radiation fields, exact to 2nd order QED, and use this result to investigate the validity of previously known approximations.

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