An electron and a positron anihilate with equal and opposite momenta and become twophotons: e- +e- → 2 photons. Both the electron and the positron have mass me andmomentum of magnitude mec.Explain why the electron and positron cannot annihilate to become a single(a)photon.(b)What are the magnitudes of the momenta of the photons?

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