An undergraduate laboratory study of the polarisation of annihilation photons using Compton scattering

Konstantinos Nikolopoulos; Garry Tungate; Patrick Knights

doi:10.1088/1361-6404/aab334

An undergraduate laboratory study of the polarisation of annihilation photons using Compton scattering

Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Garry Tungate, Patrick Knights

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An experiment for the advanced undergraduate laboratory which allows students to study the effect of photon polarisation in Compton scattering and to explore quantum entanglement is described. The quantum entangled photons are produced through electron-positron annihilation in the S-state, and their polarisations are analysed using the Compton scattering cross-section dependence on the photon
polarisation. The experiment was equipped with off-the-shelf detectors and electronic units. Finite geometry effects are discussed and investigated with the use of a Geant4-based simulation.

Original language	English
Number of pages	10
Journal	European Journal of Physics
Early online date	1 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aab334
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 1 Mar 2018

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