How to make a gamma ray
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- Visualizations by:
- Scott Wiessinger
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A series of animations showing how gamma rays can be created through various particle interactions.
Pion production and decay animation. A proton travelling to the speed of light strikes a slower-moving proton. The protons survive the collision, but their interaction creates an unstable particle — a pion — with only 14 percent of the proton's mass. In 10 millionths of a billionth of a second, the pion decays into a pair of gamma-ray photons.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
Fermi Gamma Ray Bubbles
(ID: 2010136)
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 5:00AM
Produced by - Robert Crippen
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