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Pair Production and Annihilation as a Nuclear Process

Authors: Jean Louis Van Belle

The phenomenon of matter-antimatter pair creation and annihilation is usually taken as confirmation that, somehow, fields can condense into matter-particles or, conversely, that matter-particles can somehow turn into lightlike particles (photons and/or neutrinos) – which are nothing but traveling fields (electromagnetic or, in the case of the neutrino, some strong field, perhaps). However, pair creation always requires the presence of a nucleus. We, therefore, wonder whether pair creation and annihilation cannot be analyzed as part of some nuclear process. We argue the usual nuclear reactions involving protons and neutrons can effectively account for the processes of pair creation and annihilation. We therefore argue that the need to invoke some quantum field theory (QFT) to explain these high-energy processes would need to be justified much better than it currently is.

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