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Future space observatories dedicated to direct imaging and spectroscopy of extra-solar planets will require ultra-low-noise detectors that are sensitive over a broad range of wavelengths. Silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs), such as…

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

Emission of a charged particle propagating in a medium with a curved magnetic field is reconsidered stressing the analogy between this emission mechanism and collective Cherenkov-type plasma emission. It is explained how this mechanism…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Maxim Lyutikov , George Machabeli , Roger Blandford

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

Cherenkov techniques are widely used in astroparticle experiments. This article reviews the various detection principles and the corresponding experiments, including some of the physics breakthroughs. In particular, it traces the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 Christian Spiering

Plasma-filled pulsar magnetospheres contain thin current sheets wherein the charged particles are accelerated by magnetic reconnections to travel at ultra-relativistic speeds. On the other hand, the plasma frequency of the more regular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-24 Fan Zhang

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

Cherenkov light induced by fast charged particles in transparent dielectric media such as air or water is exploited by a variety of experimental techniques to detect and measure extraterrestrial particles impinging on Earth. A selection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-03 U. F. Katz

Cherenkov radiation which generates by a charge moving in presence of a dielectric prism from the base to the top is analyzed. Unlike our previous works, here we consider the case when the charge trajectory is not parallel to the prism…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Sergey N. Galyamin , Andrey V. Tyukhtin

Charged particles travelling faster than the speed of light in the medium in which they propagate emit Cherenkov radiation. The formula for the spectrum of this radiation as a function of frequency, known as the Frank-Tamm formula, first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Joshua Lin , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld

We present a study of the emission of Cherenkov radiation in thick media, explore the limitations of the simulation tools currently in use in particle and nuclear physics, and propose a method for overcoming these limitations. We start with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 Dmytro Minchenko , Juan Pablo Yañez , Aksel Hallin

Cherenkov radiation provides a valuable way to identify high energy particles in a wide momentum range, through the relation between the particle velocity and the Cherenkov angle. However, since the Cherenkov angle depends only on…

The electron motion in atoms and molecules is at the heart of all phenomena in nature that occur outside the nucleus. Recently, ultrafast electron and X-ray imaging tools have been developed to image the ultrafast dynamics of matter in real…

We have investigated some features of the density and arrival time distributions of Cherenkov photons in extensive air showers using the CORSIKA simulation package. The main thrust of this study is to see the effect of hadronic interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 P. Hazarika , U. D. Goswami , V. R. Chitnis , B. S. Acharya , G. S. Das , B. B. Singh , R. J. Britto

The electric field of the Cherenkov radio pulse produced by a single charged particle track in a dielectric medium is derived from first principles. An algorithm is developed to obtain the pulse in the time domain for numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Jaime Alvarez-Muniz , Andres Romero-Wolf , Enrique Zas

The electromagnetic response of isotropic chiral matter, as described by Carroll-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics, arises in distinct physical contexts ranging from condensed matter systems to Lorentz-violating extensions of high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 R. Martínez von Dossow , Eduardo Barredo-Alamilla , Maxim A. Gorlach , Luis F. Urrutia

This paper explores small-scale departures from force-free electrodynamics around a rotating neutron star, extending our treatment of resistive instability in a quantizing magnetic field. A secondary, Cerenkov instability is identified:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Christopher Thompson

Cherenkov radiation enables high-energy particle identification through its velocity-dependent emission angle, yet conventional detectors fail to detect momenta beyond tens of GeV/c owing to the absence of natural materials with near-unity…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-29 Zhixiong Xie , Xiao Lin , Song Zhu , Chunyu Huang , Yu Luo , Hao Hu

Time-resolved investigations of ultrafast electronic and molecular dynamics were not possible until recently. The typical time scale of these processes is in the picosecond to attosecond realm. The tremendous technological progress in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Stefan Pabst

In this paper we examine the thermal effects of the vacuum Cherenkov radiation in a Lorentz- and CPT-violating electrodynamics. We compute the thermal contribution to the Cherenkov radiation rate within the Thermofield Dynamics approach.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 R. Bufalo , A. F. Santos