@article {22756,
	title = {The Effect of Triplet Production on Pair / Compton Cascades in Thermal Radiation},
	volume = {266},
	year = {1994},
	month = {1994/02/1},
	pages = {910},
	abstract = {We calculate the spectrum of photons resulting from electromagnetic cascades through thermal radiation, and examine the consequences of including triplet production in these cascades. We assume that the cascade is one-dimensional, and we find that this approximation is justified in the present work for thermal radiation with temperature less than 10<SUP>-3</SUP> mc<SUP>2</SUP>. Results are obtained for both monoenergetic and power-law primary spectra, and for a variety of path lengths. We find that triplet production is particularly important in electron-photon cascades through thermal radiation when the primary energy exceeds 10<SUP>5</SUP>m<SUP>2</SUP>c<SUP>4</SUP>/kT for propagation over small path lengths. The importance of triplet production decreases as the path length increases, and it has no effect on saturated cascades.},
	keywords = {Astrophysics, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - radiative transfer - gamma-rays: theory},
	isbn = {0035-8711},
	url = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994MNRAS.266..910M},
	author = {Mastichiadis, A. and Protheroe, R. J. and Szabo, A. P.}
}
