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An effect that is an analogue to the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect in a uniform space would be observed in a space with a boundary of well reflecting light metal-dielectric. The main difference is in that quanta of some electron volt would be…

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Chiral matter exhibits unique electromagnetic responses due to the macroscopic manifestation of the chiral anomaly as anomalous transport currents. Here, we study the modification of electromagnetic radiation in isotropic chiral matter…

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The boundary effects in the screening of an applied magnetic field in a finite temperature 2+1 dimensional model of charged fermions minimally coupled to Maxwell and Chern-Simons fields are investigated. It is found that in a sample with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. J. Ferrer , V. de la Incera

In this work we investigate and parameterize the amount and angular distribution of Cherenkov photons which are generated by electromagnetic cascades in water or ice. We simulate electromagnetic cascades with Geant4 for primary electrons,…

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Beam diagnostics are crucial for smooth accelerator operations. Many techniques rely on instrumentation in which the beam properties are significantly affected by the measurement. Novel approaches aim to use Cherenkov Diffraction Radiation…

We theoretically study the effect of ultraslow group velocities on the emission of Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation in a coherently driven medium. We show that in this case the aperture of the group cone on which the intensity of the radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Carusotto , M. Artoni , G. C. La Rocca , F. Bassani

In this paper, we have investigated the nature of emission distribution of the Maxwell Chern Simon (MCS) Theory in the 2+1 dimension. The distribution of the topologically massive quanta seems to be Poissonian in nature just like the…

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A particularly simple Lorentz-violating modification of the Maxwell theory of photons maintains gauge invariance, CPT, and renormalization. This modified-Maxwell theory, coupled to standard Dirac particles, involves nineteen dimensionless…

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We review the propagation of electromagnetic waves in continuous matter in the presence of Lorentz-violating terms. First, we briefly discuss classical electrodynamics with regard to optical properties of a dielectric medium exhibiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 Manoel M. Ferreira , Pedro D. S. Silva , Marco Schreck

The theory is presented of surface wave excitation by a fast moving charged particle in a thin uniform metal film surrounded by a dielectric medium. It is shown that the Vavilov-Cherenkov like effect for the sufface waves could arise for…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. S. Zuev , A. M. Leontovich , V. V. Lidsky

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

The Simulation of Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) from particles of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) with ultra high energy cosmic rays (E>=10^16 eV) was simulated for primary protons by the computer code CORSIKA. The…

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The Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) Lagrangian is the Maxwell Lagrangian augmented by the Chern-Simons (CS) term. In this paper, we study the MCS and Maxwell Lagrangians on a disk $D$. They are of interest for the quantum Hall effect, and also…

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In (3+1)-dimensional SU(Nc) Yang-Mills (YM) theory, the Chern-Simons diffusion rate, Gamma_{CS}, is determined by the zero-momentum, zero-frequency limit of the retarded two-point function of the CP-odd operator tr[F ^ F], with F the YM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Umut Gursoy , Ioannis Iatrakis , Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti , Andy O'Bannon

Radiative corrections arising from the axial coupling of charged fermions to a constant vector b_\mu can induce a Lorentz- and CPT-violating Chern-Simons term in the QED action. We calculate the exact one-loop correction to this term…

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In this work we investigate and parameterize the amount and angular distribution of Cherenkov photons, which are generated by low-energy secondary particles (typically $\lesssim 500 $\,MeV), which accompany a muon track in water or ice.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-15 Leif Rädel , Christopher Wiebusch

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

The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field. The Cherenkov pulse in radio detection originates from the charge excess of particle showers due to Askaryan effect. The conventional way of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-29 Chia-Yu Hu , Chih-Ching Chen , Pisin Chen

We investigate probe limit vortex solutions of a charged scalar field in Einstein-Maxwell theory in 3+1 dimensions, for an asymptotically AdS Schwarzschild black hole metric with the addition of an axionic coupling to the Maxwell field. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-05 Gianni Tallarita , Steven Thomas

For a group of charged particles obeying quantum mechanics interacting with an electromagnetic field, the charge and current density in a pure state of the system are expressed with the many-body wave function of the state. Using these as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 MingLiang Zhang , D. A. Drabold