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We present the results of a preliminary study of a correction method applied to the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope images affected by clouds. The studied data are Monte Carlo simulations made with CORSIKA, imitating the very high…

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Emission process of a charged particle propagating in a medium with a curved magnetic field is considered. This mechanism combines features of conventional Cherenkov and curvature emission. Thus, presence of a medium with the index of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 George Machabeli , Nino Chkheidze

We present a detailed simulation of the performance of water Cerenkov detectors suitable for use in the Pierre Auger Observatory. Using {\sc geant4}, a flexible object-oriented simulation program, including all known physics processes, has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 L. A. Anchordoqui , T. P. McCauley , T. Paul , S. Reucroft , J. D. Swain , L. Taylor

Hadronic calorimeters with dual readout measure both scintillation and Cherenkov lights produced in their active media. They offer improvements in energy resolution and, therefore, have become increasingly interesting due to the need for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-14 S. V. Chekanov , S. Eno , S. Magill , C. Palmer , L. Wu

We study the angular distribution of the radiation from a relativistic charged particle uniformly rotating along an equatorial orbit around a dielectric ball. Earlier it was shown that for some values of the problem parameters and in the…

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory and will be the major global instrument for very-high-energy astronomy over the next decade, offering 5 - 10 x better flux sensitivity than current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 J. Aschersleben , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson

The expressions for spectral-angular distribution of quasi-Cherenkov radiation emitted by a relativistic particle traversing a photonic crystal are derived. It is shown that for a relativistic particle, passing through a photonic crystal…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-09 V. G. Baryshevsky , A. A. Gurinovich

According to quantum electrodynamics, in a strong magnetic field that is constant and spatially uniform, the vacuum becomes polarized with a refractive index greater than unity. As a result, ultra-relativistic charged particles travelling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-29 Cheng-Yang Lee

The integration of Deep Learning (DL) into experimental nuclear and particle physics has driven significant progress in simulation and reconstruction workflows. However, traditional simulation frameworks such as Geant4 remain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-29 James Giroux , Michael Martinez , Cristiano Fanelli

We present an approximation for the numerical calculation of Cherenkov radio pulses in the Fraunhofer limit from very high energy showers in dense media. We compare it to full Montecarlo simulations in ice studying its range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. A. Vázquez , E. Zas

Cherenkov radiation in uniformly moving homogenous isotropic medium without dispersion is studied. Formula for the spectrum of Cherenkov radiation of fermion was derived for the case when the speed of the medium is less than the speed of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 Mihail Alfimov

The development of a 3-dimensional simulation for Cherenkov photon emissions in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is reported in this paper. CORSIKA is the most widely used Monte-Carlo generator for the description of EAS, but it is not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-13 João Espadanal , Patrícia Gonçalves

Radio emissions from extensive air showers (EAS) provide a valuable tool for detecting ultra-high-energy (UHE) astroparticles. In this context, several radio arrays focus on detecting highly inclined EAS, as this enables the observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Valentin Decoene , Marion Guelfand , Matìas Tueros

A scheme for generation of monochromatic Cherenkov radiation in a thin dielectric layer is proposed. The electrons travel in vacuum parallel to a dielectric, exciting a single synchronous electromagnetic waveguide mode. The proposed scheme…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-18 Andrzej Szczepkowicz , Po-Wei Kuo , Yen-Cheh Huang

We present the detailed quantum electrodynamical description of Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation emitted by a relativistic twisted electron in the transparent medium. Simple expressions for the spectral and spectral-angular distributions as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 I. P. Ivanov , V. G. Serbo , V. A. Zaytsev

The emission of electromagnetic radiation by charges moving uniformly in a Lorentz-violating vacuum is studied. The analysis is performed within the classical Maxwell-Chern-Simons limit of the Standard-Model Extension (SME) and confirms the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Ralf Lehnert , Robertus Potting

With the newly gained interest in the time of flight method for positron emission tomography (TOF-PET), many options for pushing the time resolution to its borders have been investigated. As one of these options the exploitation of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 S. E. Brunner , L. Gruber , J. Marton , K. Suzuki , A. Hirtl

The current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are allowing the sky to be probed with greater sensitivity than ever before in the energy range around and above 100 GeV. To minimise the systematic errors on derived fluxes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sam Nolan , Gerd Puehlhofer , Cameron Rulten