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Physical meaning of the multipolarity of gamma radiation

During my nuclear physics class, we talked about the multipolarity of gamma radiations but without going too much into the details, and I was wondering about the meaning of that, how can the radiation ...
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Minimum energy for pair production near charge $eZ$

According to the text "On the Production of the Positive Electron" by Oppenheimer and Plesset, from 1933, the authors give a lower bound for the energy $E$ for the pair production near a nucleus of ...
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