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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

The interaction of short relativistic charged particle bunches with waveguides and other accelerator system components is a critical issue for the development of X-ray FELs (free electron lasers) and linear collider projects. Wakefield…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 S. S. Baturin , A. D. Kanareykin

For waveguides with two separate regions of anomalous dispersion, it is possible to create a quasi-stable two-color solitary wave. In this paper we consider how those waves interact with dispersive radiation, both generation of Cherenkov…

Plasma-filled pulsar magnetospheres contain thin current sheets wherein the charged particles are accelerated by magnetic reconnections to travel at ultra-relativistic speeds. On the other hand, the plasma frequency of the more regular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-24 Fan Zhang

Recent advances in engineered material technologies (e.g., photonic crystals, metamaterials, plasmonics, etc) provide valuable tools to control Cherenkov radiation. In all these approaches, however, the designed materials interact only with…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-09 Hao Hu , Xiao Lin , Liang Jie Wong , Qianru Yang , Baile Zhang , Yu Luo

For usual radiation the integral of the electric field strength over the time is zero. First time the possibility of unipolar radiation generation has been considered theoretically in the paper [EG.Bessonov. Preprint No 76 of the Lebedev…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 G. Naumenko , M. Shevelev , K. E. Popov

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…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-12 S. V. Anishchenko , V. G. Baryshevsky

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

An example of discontinuity of the energy-momentum tensor moving at superluminal velocity is discussed. It is shown that the gravitational Mach cone is formed. The power spectrum of the corresponding Cherenkov radiation is evaluated.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Ignatov

We study Cerenkov radiation from moving straight strings which glisse with respect to each other in such a way that the projected intersection point moves faster than light. To calculate this effect we develop classical perturbation theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Gal'tsov , E. Yu. Melkumova , K. Salehi

Nonlinear propagation of ultrashort pulses in multi-mode waveguides, featuring complex spatial-temporal dynamics, provides new degrees of freedom in the fields of nonlinear optics and ultrafast lasers. Here, we demonstrate a new scheme of…

Within the classical Maxwell-Chern-Simons limit of the Standard-Model Extension (SME), the emission of light by uniformly moving charges is studied confirming the possibility of a Cherenkov-type effect. In this context, the exact radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf Lehnert , Robertus Potting

In this Letter we introduce a new kind of coherent particle production mechanism called dual coherent particle emission (DCPE) as generalized two-component Cherenkov-like effect, which takes place when the phase velocity of emitted particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Ion , E. K. Sarkisyan

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

Electrically charged particles, moving faster than the speed of light in a medium, emit Cherenkov radiation. Theory predicts electric and magnetic dipoles to radiate as well, with a puzzling behavior for magnetic dipoles pointing in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Ulf Leonhardt , Yuval Rosenberg

For over 80 years of research, the conventional description of free-electron radiation phenomena, such as Cherenkov radiation, has remained unchanged: classical three-dimensional electromagnetic waves. Interestingly, in reduced…

Relativistic jets launched by Active Galactic Nuclei are among the most powerful particle accelerators in the Universe. The emission over the entire electromagnetic spectrum of these relativistic jets can be extremely variable with scales…

The effects arising from accelerated and decelerated motion of a point charge inside a medium are studied. The motion is manifestly relativistic and may be produced by a constant uniform electric field. It is shown that in addition to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. N. Afanasiev , V. G. Kartavenko

It is shown that in some special cases the Cherenkov radiation from a charged particle moving along the axis of cylindrical waveguide filled with a semi-infinite material consisting of dielectric plates alternated with vacuum gaps is many…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 L. Sh. Grigoryan , H. F. Khachatryan , S. R. Arzumanyan

An alternative method of generation of Cerenkev radiation is proposed over here with the help of a rotating source and a reflector. The principle is that, if we focus a narrow beam of light on to source of light is rotated with certain…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Amit Halder