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In this work, we study the effects of vacuum Cherenkov radiation caused by nonminimal dimension-5 Lorentz-violating (LV) operators in the fermion sector. Explicitly, we focus on two independent isotropic pieces of each set of nonminimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Albert Yu. Petrov , Marco Schreck , Alexandre R. Vieira

In a Lorentz- and CPT-violating modification of electrodynamics that includes a timelike Chern-Simons term, there are no energy losss through vacuum Cerenkov radiation. A charge moving with a constant velocity does not lose energy, because…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 Karl Schober , Brett Altschul

The equations of massive electrodynamics are derived and the power spectrum formula for the Cherenkov radiation of massive photons is found. The Cherenkov power spectrum is determined also for the two-charge system. It is argued that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Miroslav Pardy

We demonstrate that Cherenkov radiation can be interpreted as ghost instability of a certain type. Solutions of modified gravity theories often contain ghost instabilities. One type of such ghost instability is associated with existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Eugeny Babichev

Nonlinearities in the dispersion relations associated with different interactions designs, boundary conditions and the existence of a physical cut-off scale can alter the quantum vacuum energy of a nonrelativistic system nontrivially. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-08 Matthew Edmonds , Antonino Flachi , Marco Pasini

We study an electromagnetic radiation of a small bunch having a variable charge value and crossing a flat interface between two media. Both media are homogeneous, stationary, and isotropic. They may have frequency dispersion but no spatial…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Xingzhen Fan , Andrey V. Tyukhtin

The Cherenkov effect is a well known phenomenon in the electrodynamics of fast charged particles passing through transparent media. If the particle is faster than the light in a given medium, the medium emits a forward light cone. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Sergey Smirnov

Classical Cherenkov radiation is a celebrated physics phenomenon of electromagnetic (EM) radiation stimulated by an electric charge moving with constant velocity in a three dimensional dielectric medium. Cherenkov radiation has a wide…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Edl Schamiloglu , Alexander Figotin

Cherenkov radiation may occur whenever the source is moving faster than the waves it generates. In a radiation dominated universe, with equation-of-state $w = 1/3$, we have recently shown that the Bardeen scalar-metric perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-18 Yi-Zen Chu , Yen-Wei Liu

Electrically charged particles, moving faster than the speed of light in a medium, emit Cherenkov radiation. Theory predicts electric and magnetic dipoles to radiate as well, with a puzzling behavior for magnetic dipoles pointing in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Ulf Leonhardt , Yuval Rosenberg

We demonstrate that, in the presence of an external magnetic field, an uncharged classical Schwarzschild black hole moving superluminally in a dielectric with permittivity $\epsilon > 1$ produces Cherenkov emission. This is a new physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Sergei Khlebnikov , Maxim Lyutikov

In this work, we use Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) introduced as a generic modification to particle dispersion relations to study some consequences of single photon emission, known as vacuum Cherenkov radiation, and photon decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 H. Martínez-Huerta , A. Pérez-Lorenzana

The current article reviews results on vacuum Cherenkov radiation obtained for modified fermions. Two classes of processes can occur that have completely distinct characteristics. The first one does not include a spin flip of the radiating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 M. Schreck

The radiation from a relativistic charged particle uniformly moving through the centre of a dielectric ball is investigated. Analytical expressions for spectral and spectral-angular distributions of the radiated energy are derived and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Svetlana R. Arzumanyan

Electromagnetic processes associated with a charged particle moving in a strong circular magnetic field is considered in cylindrical coordinates. We investigate the relation between the vacuum curvature emission and Cherenkov emission and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maxim Lyutikov , George Machabeli , Roger Blandford

Coherent emission of light by free charged particles is ubiquitous in many areas of physics and engineering, with the light's properties believed to be successfully captured by classical electromagnetism in all relevant experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Aviv Karnieli , Nicholas Rivera , Ady Arie , Ido Kaminer

We analyze the Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (VCR) in a dispersive nontransparent dielectric air-like medium both below and above the Cherenkov threshold, in the framework of classical electrodynamics. It is shown that the transition to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. G. Kartavenko , G. N. Afanasiev , W. Greiner

Cerenkov radiation from cavities have been analyzed by quantum electrodynamic theory. Analytical expressions of some basic radiation properties including Einstein's $A$ and $B$ coefficients are derived and shown to be directly modified by…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ju Gao , Fang Shen

In this paper, the Cherenkov radiation process is investigated in the frame of the Quantum Field Theory, both for the spinless and spin-1/2 charged particles. In the latter case, the polarization density matrix technique was used to account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Stanislav Iablokov

Bounds on the scale parameter {\cal L} arising in loop quantum gravity theory are derived in the framework of Cerenkov's effect and neutrino oscillations. Assuming that {\cal L} is an universal constant, we infer {\cal L}> 10^{-18}eV^{-1},…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 G. Lambiase