The pair production spectrum
from photon-photon annihilation


M. Böttcher and R. Schlickeiser,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 325, 866 (1997)


Abstract

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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