Radiative process

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In this Feynman diagram, electrons annihilate and become a quark-antiquark pair. Then one radiates a gluon. (Time goes left to right.)

In particle physics, a radiative process refers to one elementary particle emitting another and continuing to exist. This typically happens when a fermion emits a boson such as a gluon or photon.

See also

Bremsstrahlung

References

↑ Rouan, Daniel (2011), "Radiative Processes", in Gargaud, Muriel; Amils, Ricardo; Quintanilla, José Cernicharo; Cleaves, Henderson James (Jim) (eds.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 1407–1410, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4, ISBN 978-3-642-11274-4, retrieved 2024-11-05

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