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We present computing results of the Cherenkov light propagation in air and water from extensive air showers developing over the ocean. Limits on zenith angles of the showers, at which the registration of flashes of reflected Cherenkov…

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Due to their weak interactions, neutrinos can polarize a medium and acquire an induced charge. We consider the Cherenkov radiation emitted by neutrinos due to their effective electromagnetic interactions as they pass through a polarizable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Juan Carlos D'Olivo , Jose F. Nieves , Palash B. Pal

The Cherenkov radio pulse emitted by hadronic showers in ice is calculated for showers of energies in the EeV range. This is obtained with three dimensional simulations of both shower development and the coherent radio pulse emitted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-17 Jaime Alvarez-Muniz , Washington R. Carvalho , Matias Tueros , Enrique Zas

A wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope has been working in the surroundings of the Yakutsk array experiment since 2012. Its main function is to measure the waveform of the Cherenkov radiation signal induced by extensive air showers of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 A. A. Ivanov , S. V. Matarkin , L. V. Timofeev

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the range 10^15 eV to 6*10^19 eV has been studied using the air Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array. The total flux of photons produced by relativistic electrons (including positrons as well,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 A. A. Ivanov , S. P. Knurenko , I. Ye. Sleptsov

We revisit the theory of Cherenkov radiation in uniaxial crystals. Historically, a number of flawed attempts have been made at explaining this radiation phenomenon and a consistent error-free description is nowhere available. We apply our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 R. E. Mikkelsen , T. Poulsen , U. I. Uggerhøj , S. R. Klein

In this article we review the progress made in understanding the main characteristics of coherent \v{C}erenkov radiation induced by high energy showers in dense media. A specific code developed for this purpose is described because it took…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Enrique Zas

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

We give an overview of the SPHERE experiment based on detection of reflected Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (Cherenkov light) from extensive air showers in the energy region E>10^{15} eV. A brief history of the reflected Cherenkov light…

The possibility to use Cherenkov light measurements with Cherenkov telescope to study atmospheric processes is shown. Cherenkov light from extensive air showers is obtained using Monte Carlo simulations with CORSIKA code. Different…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-10-12 A. Mishev

The light signal measured by fluorescence telescopes receives - strongly depending on the shower geometry with respect to the detector - a non-negligible contribution from additionally produced Cherenkov light. This Cherenkov contribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 F. Nerling , J. Bluemer , R. Engel , M. Unger

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

High Energy Cosmic Rays (C.R.) versus Neutrino and Neutralino induced Air-Shower maybe tested at Horizons by their muons, gamma and Cerenkov blazing signals. Inclined and Horizontal C.R. Showers (70-90 zenith angle) produce secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Fargion

In dark photon search experiments with electron beam-dumps, it is difficult to access the smaller dark photon life-time region of phase space due to enormous backgrounds from low-energy particles emerging from the target. In order to reduce…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-31 Suyong Choi , Yunjun Kim , Youn Roh

A method for fast simulation of the Cherenkov light generated by electromagnetic showers is described. The parametrization for the longitudinal profile is used and fluctuations and correlations of the parameters are taken into account in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. Bezrukov , A. V. Butkevich

We study the frequency and angular dependences of Cherenkov radio pulses originated by the excess of electrons in electromagnetic showers in different dense media. We develop a simple model to relate the main characteristics of the electric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Enrique Marqués , Ricardo A. Vázquez , Enrique Zas

The electric field of the Cherenkov radio pulse produced by a single charged particle track in a dielectric medium is derived from first principles. An algorithm is developed to obtain the pulse in the time domain for numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Jaime Alvarez-Muniz , Andres Romero-Wolf , Enrique Zas

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

The operation of a wide field-of-view (WFOV) Cherenkov telescope is described. The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) of cosmic rays (CR) is based upon the coincidence with signals from the Yakutsk array. The data acquisition system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-08 A. A. Ivanov , S. V. Matarkin , L. V. Timofeev

We compare in detail the results of simulations of electromagnetic showers in ice in the GeV-TeV energy range, using both the GEANT package and the ZHS Monte Carlo, a code specifically designed to calculate coherent Cerenkov radio pulses…

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