Polarized triplet production by circularly polarized photons
V. V. Bytev, E. A. Kuraev, M. V. Galynskii+, A. P. Potylitsyn*
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia
+Institute of Physics NAS, 220072 Minsk, Belarus
*Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
PACS: 13.88.+e, 13.40.-f, 14.60.Cd, 25.20.Lj
Abstract
A process of the pair production by a circularly polarized photon
in the field of unpolarized atomic electron has been considered in the
Weizaecker-Williams approximation. The degree of longitudinal polarization
of positron and electron has been calculated. An exclusive cross-section
as well as a spectral distribution are obtained. We estimate the accuracy
of our calculations at the level of a few percent. We show the identity
of the positron polarization for considered process and for process of
pair production in the screened Coulomb field of nucleus.