Annihilation radiation is a term used in Gamma spectroscopy for the gamma radiation produced when a particle and Antiparticle collide. Most commonly, this refers to 511-keV gamma rays produced by a gamma ray undergoing Pair production .Annihilation radiation is not monoenergetic, unlike gamma rays produced by radioactive decay. The production mechanism of annihilation radiation introduces Doppler broadening. The annihilation peak produced in a gamma spectrum by annihilation radiation therefore has a higher full width at half maximum (FWHM) than other gamma rays in spectrum. The difference is more apparent with high resolution detectors, such as Germanium detectors, than with low resolution detectors such as Sodium iodide detectors.
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When the antimatter counterpart of a matter particle (e.g. a positron and electron or proton and antiproton) collide they mutually annihilate and two photons are created that take away the rest mass energy ( = 2 moc2 ), kinetic energy, linear and angular momentum; electric charge is conserved.
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