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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

A canonical approach to Cherenkov radiation in the presence of a magnetodielectric medium is presented in classical, nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum regimes. The equations of motion for the canonical variables are solved explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fardin Kheirandish , Ehsan Amooghorban

The possibility that a charged particle propagating in a gravitational field described by Brans-Dicke theory of gravity could emit Cerenkov radiation is explored. This process is kinematically allowed depending on parameters occurring in…

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

We examine the electromagnetic radiation produced by a moving charge in the QED vacuum that behaves as a dispersive medium characterized by a geometrical structure (discreteness/granularity) that emerges from loop quantum gravity. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-14 Patricio Gaete , J. A. Helayël-Neto

We investigate the hypothetical process of gravitational Cherenkov radiation, which may occur in modified gravity theories. We obtain a useful constraint on a modified dispersion relation for propagating modes of gravitational waves, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-25 Satoshi Kiyota , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

The goal of our study is to investigate the effects of Lorentz symmetry violation by examining the behavior of photons within the framework of the Standard Model Extension (SME). We show that, from an optical point of view, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Iman Motie , Brahim Lamine , Alain Blanchard , Rémy Battesti , Carlo Rizzo

The Lorentz- and CPT-violating Chern-Simons extension of electrodynamics is considered. In the context of N=4 supergravity in four spacetime dimensions, it is argued that cosmological solutions can generate this extension. Within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Ralf Lehnert

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

We present an interdisciplinary review of the generalized Cerenkov emission of radiation from uniformly moving sources in the different contexts of classical electromagnetism, superfluid hydrodynamics, and classical hydrodynamics. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Iacopo Carusotto , Germain Rousseaux

This paper explores some propagation features of electrodynamics in a Lorentz-violating scenario, focusing on a specific CPT-even term within the photon sector of the Standard Model Extension (SME). The study derives a covariant dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 E. Goulart , J. E. Ottoni , J. C. C. Felipe

The photon emission by an ultrarelativistic charged particle in extremely strong magnetic field is analyzed, with vacuum polarization and photon recoil taken into account. The vacuum polarization is treated phenomenologically via refractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 I. I. Artemenko , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov

The formulation and some experimental implications of a general Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model are reviewed. The theory incorporates both CPT-preserving and CPT-breaking terms. It is otherwise a conventional quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan Kostelecky

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

Radiation of charged particles moving in the presence of dielectric targets is of significant interest for various applications in the accelerator and beam physics. The size of these targets is typically much larger than the wavelengths…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Andrey V. Tyukhtin , Ekaterina S. Belonogaya , Sergey N. Galyamin , Victor V. Vorobev

The radiation generated by a charged longitudinal oscillator moving with a constant drift velocity along the axis of a dielectric cylinder immersed in a homogeneous medium is investigated. For an arbitrary oscillation law a formula is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Aram A. Saharian , Anna S. Kotanjyan

The static limit of Lorentz-violating electrodynamics in vacuum and in media is investigated. Features of the general solutions include the need for unconventional boundary conditions and the mixing of electrostatic and magnetostatic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Quentin G. Bailey , Alan Kostelecky

An investigation is performed of the Lorentz-violating electrodynamics extracted from the renormalizable sector of the general Lorentz- and CPT-violating standard-model extension. Among the unconventional properties of radiation arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

We investigate the Cherenkov radiation by a charge uniformly moving inside a dielectric cylindrical channel in a homogeneous medium. The expressions for the Fourier components of the electric and magnetic fields are derived by using the…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 A. A. Saharian , S. B. Dabagov , H. F. Khachatryan , L. Sh. Grigoryan

We entertain the constraints that the absence of vacuum Cherenkov radiation of ultrahigh-energy electrons inferred from LHAASO observations of the Crab Nebula can impose on generic models in which Lorentz symmetry of the particle vacuum is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Chengyi Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

We explore how higher-order derivative terms impact a physical observable within a Lorentz-Symmetry Violating (LSV) framework. We specifically examine Podolsky electrodynamics coupled with the Carroll-Field-Jackiw model (CFJ). Our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-16 J. P. Ferreira , Patricio Gaete , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto