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We study the features of cooperative parametric (quasi-Cherenkov) radiation arising when initially unmodulated electron (positron) bunches pass through a crystal (natural or artificial) under the conditions of dynamical diffraction of…

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Atmospheric Cherenkov technique is an established methodology to study TeV energy gamma rays. Here we carry out systematic monte carlo simulation studies of the timing information of Cherenkov photons. Extensive studies have already been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

In gamma-ray astronomy through Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT), the atmosphere is used as a calorimeter. Incident gamma-rays in the GeV-TeV energy range are observed through the electromagnetic showers they produce in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-02 S. Sajjad , A. Falvard

We report on measurements of 11-18 cm wavelength radio emission from interactions of 15.2 MeV pulsed electron bunches at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator. The electrons were observed both in a configuration where they produced primarily…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-17 Peter Gorham , David Saltzberg , Paul Schoessow , Wei Gai , John G. Power , Richard Konecny , M. E. Conde

Radiation generated by a charge moving through a vacuum channel in a dielectric cone is analyzed. It is assumed that the charge moves through the cone from the apex side to the base side (the case of "inverted" cone). The cone size is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Andrey V. Tyukhtin , Sergey N. Galyamin , Viktor V. Vorobev , Aleksandra A. Grigoreva

The simulation of Cherenkov photon's lateral density and arrival time distributions in Extensive Air Showers (EASs) was performed with the CORSIKA code in the energy range: 100 GeV to 100 TeV. On the basis of this simulation we obtained a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 P. Hazarika , G. S. Das , U. D. Goswami

We investigate the radiation from a charged particle moving outside a dielectric cylinder parallel to its axis. It is assumed that the cylinder is immersed into a homogeneous medium. The expressions are given for the vector potential and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 A. A. Saharian , L. Sh. Grigoryan , A. Kh. Grigorian , H. F. Khachatryan , A. S. Kotanjyan

A Monte-Carlo study to reconstruct energy and mass of cosmic rays with energies above 300 TeV using ground based measurements of the electromagnetic part of showers initiated in the atmosphere is presented. The shower properties determined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lindner

A new generation of cryogenic light detectors exploiting Neganov-Luke effect to enhance the thermal signal has been used to detect the Cherenkov light emitted by the electrons interacting in TeO$_{2}$ crystals. With this mechanism a high…

The recent detection of gamma radiation from Mkn 501 at energies as high as 25 TeV suggests stringent upper bounds on the diffuse, far infrared, extragalactic radiation density. The production of electron-positron pairs through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Harwit , R. J. Protheroe , P. L. Biermann

It is well-known that a charged particle moving with constant velocity in vacuum does not radiate. In a medium the situation can be different. If the so called Cherenkov condition is satisfied, i.e. the particle velocity exceeds the phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Marklund , G. Brodin , L. Stenflo , P. K. Shukla

We have studied the distribution patterns of lateral density, arrival time and angular position of Cherenkov photons generated in Extensive Air Showers (EASs) initiated by $\gamma$-ray, proton and iron primaries incident with various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-15 G. S. Das , P. Hazarika , U. D. Goswami

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…

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The measurement of $\gamma$-rays originating from active galactic nuclei offers the unique opportunity to study the propagation of very-high-energy photons over cosmological distances. Most prominently, $\gamma$-rays interact with the…

The current article reviews results on vacuum Cherenkov radiation obtained for modified fermions. Two classes of processes can occur that have completely distinct characteristics. The first one does not include a spin flip of the radiating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 M. Schreck

In this contribution the Super-Cerenkov radiation (SCR) as a new phenomenon which includes in a more general and exact form the usual Cerenkov effect is presented. The Super-Cerenkov effect at Cerenkov threshold in the radiators of RICH…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 D. B. Ion , M. L. Ion

The Gerasimova-Zatsepin effect of collisions of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray nuclei with photons emitted by the sun may cause two simultaneous air showers on Earth. This effect is simulated using the full energy spectrum of solar photons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-13 J. V. R. van Eijden , S. J. de Jong , C. J. W. P. Timmermans

The detection of electromagnetic pulses from high energy showers is used as a means to search for Ultra-High Energy cosmic ray and neutrino interactions. An approximate formula has been obtained to numerically evaluate the radio pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-09 Daniel García-Fernández , Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Washington R. Carvalho , Andrés Romero-Wolf , Enrique Zas

Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs) are pivotal in various scientific fields, including neutrino physics, gamma-ray astronomy, and cosmic-ray research. The detection sensitivity and precision of these detectors crucially rely on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 D. Ambrosino , R. Colalillo , V. M. Grieco , F. Guarino , L. Lavitola , F. Sansone , M. Tambone , L. Valore , M. Waqas

The efficiency of the $\gamma$/hadron separation worsens significantly at low energies for Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). This observed effect was partially explained by the occurrence of a hardly reducible hadronic background…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Dorota Sobczynska , Katarzyna Adamczyk