When a positron enters a solid, it very quickly undergoes an annihilation reaction with its antiparticle, the electron, releasing in the process the total energy of the two particles. This energy, almost entirely made up of the rest mass energy 2 m 0 c 2 , equals 1.022 MeV and appears as γ rays.
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A E Hughes (1977) studied this question.