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Interactions between charged particles and light occur in real space and time, yet quantum field theory usually describes them in momentum space. Whereas this approach is well suited for calculating emission probabilities and cross…

We derive the covariant generalization of the Frank-Tamm formula describing the Cherenkov radiation by a charged particle moving uniformly with a speed faster than the local speed of light within a homogeneous dielectric medium. We use our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Will Price , Martin S. Formanek , Johann Rafelski

There is a century-old tenet [1, 2] that the inverse Doppler frequency shift of light [3-13] is impossible in homogeneous systems with a positive refractive index. Here we break this long-held tenet by predicting a new kind of Doppler…

We discuss the Cherenkov process $\nu\to\nu\gamma$ in the presence of a homogeneous magnetic field. The neutrinos are taken to be massless with only standard-model couplings. The magnetic field fulfills the dual purpose of inducing an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ioannisian , G. Raffelt

The phenomenon is described that is an analogue of the Vavilov-Cherenkov phenomenon and that could be observable in a space with the boundary separated a well reflecting light metal and a dielectric. An electron that is moving at a constant…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-16 Vitaly S. Zuev , Genrietta Ya. Zueva

It is argued that the experimentally observed phenomenon of asymmetric shapes of vector mesons produced in nuclear media during high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions can be explained as Fano-Feshbach resonances. It has been observed that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 I. M. Dremin , V. A. Nechitailo

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

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 energy and momentum lost by a hard parton propagating through hot and dense matter has to be redistributed during the nuclear medium evolution. Apart from heating the medium, there is the possibility that collective modes are excited…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jörg Ruppert

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

Compton scattering is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics, describing the fundamental interaction of a charged particle with photons. The Compton effect and its inverse are utilized in experiments driving free electrons by high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Majed Khalaf , Ido Kaminer

Very energetic cosmic rays entering the atmosphere of the Earth will create a plasma cloud moving with almost the speed of light. The magnetic field of the Earth induces an electric current in this cloud which is responsible for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-22 K. D. de Vries , A. M. van den Berg , O. Scholten , K. Werner

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the radiation process of the charged particle passing through an external periodic field in a dispersive medium. In the optical range of spectrum we will consider two cases: first, the source has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-10 Lekdar Gevorgian , Valeri Vardanyan

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

The effects arising from accelerated and decelerated motion of a point charge inside a medium are studied. The motion is manifestly relativistic and may be produced by a constant uniform electric field. It is shown that in addition to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. N. Afanasiev , V. G. Kartavenko

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

The term two--photon processes is used for the reactions in which some system of particles is produced in collision of two photons, either real or virtual. In the study of these processes our main goal was to suggest approach, allowing to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-05 Ilya F. Ginzburg

Within the scope of the relativistic quantum theory for electron-laser interaction in a medium and using the resonant approximation for the two degenerated states of an electron in a monochromatic radiation field [1] a nonperturbative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. K. Avetissian , A. L. Khachatryan , G. F. Mkrtchian

Here, we develop a comprehensive quantum theory for the phenomenon of quantum friction. Based on a theory of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics for unstable systems, we calculate the quantum expectation of the friction force, and link the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mario G. Silveirinha

The process of electron-positron pair creation by a high-energy electron in a medium is analyzed. The spectral distribution over energies of created particles is calculated for the direct and cascade mechanisms of the process. The Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-19 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov