pair formation

1. 1.

   the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus

   Synonymspair productionpair creation

   Broadernatural process

Questions about pair formation

What does pair formation mean?

pair formation means "the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus".

What is another word for pair formation?

Close synonyms include pair production, pair creation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.