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Particle physics question?

  • 18-06-2016 05:28PM
    #1
    TSMGUY
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    Driving me nuts. It's the pair production section in Investigating Physics. Chapter 22 exercise 2 question 4 about two protons of 1.2 Gev colliding and producing new a proton and an antiproton. I keep getting 511Mev but the book says 211 Mev. Can anyone help?


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  • #2
    Misty_01
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    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Driving me nuts. It's the pair production section in Investigating Physics. Chapter 22 exercise 2 question 4 about two protons of 1.2 Gev colliding and producing new a proton and an antiproton. I keep getting 511Mev but the book says 211 Mev. Can anyone help?

    Can you PM a picture of the question ???


  • #3
    DownOneTourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭DownOneTourist


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Driving me nuts. It's the pair production section in Investigating Physics. Chapter 22 exercise 2 question 4 about two protons of 1.2 Gev colliding and producing new a proton and an antiproton. I keep getting 511Mev but the book says 211 Mev. Can anyone help?

    511 and 211. it could be an easy typo. i don't have investigating physics. i only have lc physic plus.


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