Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors

A modification of the Pryce-Ward formula for semi-classical simulations of annihilation photons correlations

5 Dec 2025, 10:00

30m

Institute of Physics, Bijenička 46

Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors

Speaker

Petar Zugec (University of Zagreb (HR))

Description

A joint Compton scattering of two maximally entangled photons from an electron-positron annihilation is described by the famous Pryce-Ward statistics. Due to the nature of the entangled state, this statistics is physically (but not mathematically) incompatible with the Klein-Nishina statistics for single photons. We show that these two statistics can be artificially reconciled for purposes of semi-classical simulations treating the photons as classical entities, while simultaneously implementing the non-classical correlations.

Presentation materials

Zugec_presentation.pdf