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If photons (zero rest mass) have no anti-particle, do Particle / Anti-Particle pairs necessarily have rest mass ? For example, that Anti-Neutrinos exist demands that Neutrinos have rest mass ??

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Showing that a particle is massive implies that the corresponding antiparticle is also massive and moreover the masses are identical.

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Thanks for the info.

 

  swansont said:
Photons do have an antiparticle. It is the photon.

 

What would a "photon / (anti-)photon" annihilation reaction look like ? Is such essentially, and simply, some sort of "scattering", wherein the wavelengths of the (incident) photons are affected ?

 

 

 

  ajb said:
Showing that a particle is massive implies that the corresponding antiparticle is also massive and moreover the masses are identical.

 

From something I saw on TV, could there possibly be some sort of "chiral analogy", between Anti-Matter & Matter, and Anti-Cyclones & Cyclones (in the weather of worlds, such as the storms of Gas Giants) ?

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  Widdekind said:

What would a "photon / (anti-)photon" annihilation reaction look like ? Is such essentially, and simply, some sort of "scattering", wherein the wavelengths of the (incident) photons are affected ?

 

You can have \gamma \rightarrow e^{+} + e^{-} in a background field, such as near a nucleus.

 

Also one can have in free space \gamma + \gamma \rightarrow e^{+} + e^{-}.

 

 

  Widdekind said:

From something I saw on TV, could there possibly be some sort of "chiral analogy", between Anti-Matter & Matter, and Anti-Cyclones & Cyclones (in the weather of worlds, such as the storms of Gas Giants) ?

 

Maybe, both particles and antiparticles look the same up to "minus signs".

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Photons are eigenstates of the Charge Conjugation © operator, with eigenvalue -1 (D.Griffiths. Intro. Elem. Part., pg. ~70). Might that mean, that turning a photon into an "anti-photon", involves a 180 degree phase shift (e^{i \pi} = -1) ?? After all, particles annihilate their anti-particles, and light wave-trains shifted by 180 degrees deconstructively interfere.


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Also one can have in free space \gamma + \gamma \rightarrow e^{+} + e^{-}...

 

Is it true, that photon "splitting", into pairs of particles/antiparticles, generally only happens near nuclei (and, presumably, there super-strong electromagnetic fields) ?? Cf. Vacuum Polarization*.

 

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Gluons
can "split", into
quark-antiquark
pairs, when stretched far enough (
cf
.
). But, the
Color Force
increases with distance, so that such "splitting"
also
occurs in extreme "
Color Fields
". Maybe Gauge Bosons "split" in extreme fields ?? (Wouldn't that be where they'd have the highest energies, anyway, for potential pair production??)
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