Which of the following quantities does not remain conserved during pair production?
Which of the following quantities does not remain conserved during pair production?
Explanation
In pair production, a high-energy photon converts into a particle-antiparticle pair (e.g., electron + positron).The following quantities are conserved:
- Energy
- Momentum
- Charge
However, mass is not conserved in the classical sense.
Instead, mass is converted into energy (or vice versa), following Einstein’s equation: E=mc^2