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[syn: pair production, pair creation, pair formation]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pair production \Pair" pro*duc"tion\ (Physics)
The simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle,
such as an electron and positron, from a photon; -- usually
due to its interaction with the strong field near a nucleus.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pair production
n 1: the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron
and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic
nucleus [syn: pair production, pair creation, pair
formation]