Forest Bhabha Scattering

Bhabha (electron -positron) Scattering

Bhabha scattering identifies the scatterng of an electron and positron (particle and anti-particle). There are two processes that can occur

1.) scattering via the exchange of a virtual photon

2.) annihilation in which the e+ and e- spend some time as a photon which then reconverts back to an e+e- pair

variables

Let:

[math]p_1 \equiv[/math] initial electron 4-momentum

u_1 \equiv initial electron spinor

p_2 \equiv final electron 4-momentum

u_2 \equiv final electron spinor

p_3 \equiv initial positron 4-momentum

\bar{u}_3 \equiv initial positron spinor

p_4 \equiv finial positron 4-momentum

[math]\bar{u}_4 \equiv[/math] finial positron spinor

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