Definitions from Wikipedia (Pair-conversion)

▸ noun:  In photonics, a pair-conversion instrument detects high-energy gamma rays by providing an environment—generally a thin foil of dense metal, commonly tungsten—in which they tend to generate electron-positron pairs, and then using standard particle physics techniques such as a microstrip detector to detect these particles.


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