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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

Among the most studied approaches to introduce the breaking of Lorentz symmetry, the generic approach is one of the most frequently used for phenomenology, it converges on the modification of the free particle dispersion relation. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 H. Martínez-Huerta , A. Pérez-Lorenzana

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 current work focuses on the process of vacuum Cherenkov radiation for Lorentz-violating fermions that are described by the minimal Standard-Model Extension (SME). To date, most considerations of this important hypothetical process have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-05 M. Schreck

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

The simplest way to modify gravity is to extend the gravitational sector to include an additional scalar degree of freedom. The most general metric that can be built in such a theory includes disformal terms, so that standard model fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Carsten van de Bruck , Clare Burrage , Jack Morrice

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

Some characteristic features in the radiation from a relativistic electron uniformly rotating along an equatorial orbit around a dielectric ball have been studied. It was shown that at some harmonics, in case of weak absorption of radiation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sh. Grigoryan , H. F. Khachatryan , S. R. Arzumanyan , M. L. Grigoryan

A detailed analysis of vacuum Cherenkov radiation in spacelike Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) theory is presented. A semiclassical treatment reproduces the leading terms of the tree-level result from quantum field theory. Moreover, certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Kaufhold , F. R. Klinkhamer

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

We investigate physical consequences of non-linear electrodynamic coupled to parameters that signal violation Lorentz-symmetry breaking (LSV). Our undertaking is done by considering a general non-linear photonic Lagrangian which coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-04 Patricio Gaete , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto

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

Cherenkov radiation (CR) generated by a charge moving through a hollow conical target made of dielectric material is analyzed. We consider two cases: the charge moves from the base of the cone to its top (``straight'' cone) or from the top…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrey V. Tyukhtin , Sergey N. Galyamin , Viktor V. Vorobev

A theoretical investigation of radiation field produced by a charge moving through the dielectric concentrator for Cherenkov radiation is performed for the general case where a charge trajectory is shifted with respect to the target axis.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sergey N. Galyamin , Viktor V. Vorobev , Andrey V. Tyukhtin

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

We present a number of arguments to demonstrate that a quantum analog of Cherenkov effect occurs when two dispersive objects are in relative motion. Specifically we show that two semi-infinite plates experience friction beyond a threshold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Ramin Golestanian , Mehran Kardar

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 study some observational signatures of nonlinearities of the electromagnetic field. First to all we show the vital role played by nonlinearities in triggering a material behavior of the vacuum with $(\varepsilon > 0, \mu <0)$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 P. Gaete , J. A. Helayël-Neto

We examine the effects of electromagnetic field non-linearities in $3$ space-time dimensions. We focus on how these non-linearities influence permittivity and susceptibility. This, in turn, leads to changes in the refractive index through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Patricio Gaete , J. A. Helayël-Neto

Starting from the modified Maxwell equations in Carroll-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics we study the electromagnetic radiation in a chiral medium characterized by an axion coupling $\theta(x)=b_\mu x^\mu$, with $b_\mu= (0,\mathbf{b})$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Eduardo Barredo-Alamilla , Luis F. Urrutia , Manoel M. Ferreira