Abstract
Three-photon annihilation of the positron with a negatron has been determined quantitatively as well as qualitatively by the simultaneous observation of the emitted photons with scintillation counters. The ratio of the reaction cross sections for two- and three-photon annihilation has been determined as . This is in agreement with the theory of Ore and Powell but definitely differs from the theoretical values obtained by Lifshitz and by Ivanenko and Sokolov.
- Received 11 January 1954
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.96.691
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