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This document contains 10 physics exercises related to relativistic dynamics: 1) Calculating the velocity of an electron struck by a photon. 2) Calculating scattering angles of proton collisions at different energies. 3) Calculating the speed and photon energies from positronium formation. 4) Calculating photon energies and directions from an antiproton-proton collision. 5) Calculating pion decay photon energies and angles based on the pion's motion.

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SRT 8

This document contains 10 physics exercises related to relativistic dynamics: 1) Calculating the velocity of an electron struck by a photon. 2) Calculating scattering angles of proton collisions at different energies. 3) Calculating the speed and photon energies from positronium formation. 4) Calculating photon energies and directions from an antiproton-proton collision. 5) Calculating pion decay photon energies and angles based on the pion's motion.

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Relatividad Especial

Ejercicios de Dinmica Relativista

1. Compton Eect

The usual theory of the Compton eect considers a stationary free electron being struck
by a photon, resulting in a scattered photon of lower energy. Suppose that a photon (of
energy Q) has a head-on collision with a moving electron (of rest mass mo ; see the figure).
What initial velocity must the electron have if the collision results in a photon recoiling
straight backward with the same energy Q as the incident photon?

2. Proton Collision

(a) If a proton of kinetic energy 437 M eV collides elastically with a proton at rest, and
the two protons rebound with equal energies, what is the included angle between them? [R.
B. Sutton et al., Phys. Rev., 97, 783 (1955), for the experimental result.]
(b) If the incoming proton has a total energy of 33 GeV what is the included angle
between them?

3. Positronium

A positron with kinetic energy 0.51 M eV collides inelastically with an electron at rest,
forming a positronium atom which recoils freely. The electron and positron forming the
positronium annihilate in flight, producing two rays.
(a) What is the speed of the positronium atom?
(b) What is the maximum possible energy of an annihilation photon so produced?

4. Proton-Antiproton collision

An antiproton p of kinetic energy 2


3
GeV strikes a proton p which is at rest in the
laboratory. They annihilate (reaction: p + p ! 1 + 2 ), yielding two photons which emerge

1
from the reaction traveling forward or backward on the line along which the antiproton
entered. Take the rest energy of the proton and the antiproton to be 1 GeV each.
(a) What energies do the photons have?
(b) In which direction is each photon heading?
(c) As measured in a reference frame attached to the incoming p, what energy does each
ofthe photons have?

5. Mesons

The neutral meson ( o ) decays into two rays (and nothing else). If a o (whose rest
mass is 135 M eV ) is moving with a kinetic energy of 1 GeV :
(a) What are the energies of the rays if the decay process causes them to be emitted
in opposite directions along the pions original line of motion?
(b) What angle is formed between the two rays if they are emitted at equal angles to
the direction of the pions motion?

6. Zero-Momentum System

A particle of rest mass m and velocity v collides elastically with a stationary particle of
rest mass M . Express the recoil and scattering angles in terms of the corresponding angles
in the zero-momentum system. Show that your answers reduce to the nonrelativistic ones
if v c.

7. Elastic Collision

A particle of rest mass M collides elastically with a stationary particle of rest mass
m M . If the initial velocity of M is such that (v) = M
m
, show that the maximum angle
through which M can be scattered is approximately pm .
3M
Show also that the maximum
recoil angle of m is 90o .

8. Electron-Positron production

An electron-positron pair can be produced by a ray striking a stationary electron:

2
+ e ! e + e+ + e .

What is the minimum -ray energy that will make this process go?

9. Photon Rocket

A "photon rocket" uses pure radiation as the propellant. If the initial and final rest
masses of the rocket are Mi and Mf , show that the final velocity v of the rocket relative to
its initial rest frame is given by the equation
1/2
Mi c+v
= .
Mf c v

10. Laser

A laser with a mass of 10 kg is in free space with its beam directed toward the earth.
The laser continuously emits 1020 photons/sec, of wavelength 6000 (as measured in its
own rest frame). At t = 0 the laser is at rest with respect to the earth.
(a) Initially, how much radiant energy per second is received at the earth?
(b) The radiation emitted toward the earth causes the laser to recoil away from the earth.
What is the velocity of the laser relative to the earth after 10 years (laser time) have elapsed?
(c) At the time when the laser is moving with velocity c relative to the earth, how much
less is the rate at which energy is received on earth than the original rate when = 0?
Evaluate this for t = 10 years (laser time).
(d) Show how an observer on earth can explain (to a first approximation) the continually
decreasing rate of reception in terms of energy conservation.

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