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Cherenkov radiation, also known as Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation, is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium. The characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor is due to Cherenkov radiation. It is named after Soviet scientist Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner who was the first to detect it experimentally. A theory of this effect was later developed within the framework of Einstein's special relativity theory by Igor Tamm and Ilya Frank, who also shared the Nobel Prize. Cherenkov radiation had been theoretically predicted by the English polymath Oliver Heaviside in papers published in 1888–89.
Usage examples of "cherenkov radiation".
Now new lights appeared, the bright turquoise of Cherenkov radiation flaring down as if small stars had suddenly ignited in orbit.
There would be a kind of optic boom - a blue flash, a burst of Cherenkov radiation, a spark confusing the sensors.
Never before has Cherenkov radiation been observed in this hard a vacuum.
As the Cherenkov radiation pattern died away, Bey raised his head.
Maybe a large metallic mass moving faster than light would put out heavy Cherenkov radiation.
The color of Cherenkov radiation, it flowed parallel to the slender silver spine at the tail.
So they saw what not too many people have an opportunity to seea starship decelerating hard from warp, the point of a silver spear piercing through from the far side of the darkness in a trailing storm-cone of rainbows, as Coromandel came out of warp in a splendor of Cherenkov radiation from the superrelativistic particles she dragged into real-space with her.
So they saw what not too many people have an opportunity to see-a starship decelerating hard from warp, the point of a silver spear piercing through from the far side of the darkness in a trailing storm-cone of rainbows, as Coromandel came out of warp in a splendor of Cherenkov radiation from the superrelativistic particles she dragged into real-space with her.
In the noonday sun, his Shirt of Many Colors seemed to shimmer with Cherenkov radiation, and the gold ring on his big toe shone.
The Metropolis night comes alive with a network of narrow, eerie blue lines of Cherenkov radiation.