Cerenkov

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• The name Cerenkov honors the Soviet physicist who discovered this unique type of radiation in 1934.

• You can stand at the top and look down into the pool and see the Cerenkov radiation.

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• The electrons accelerated to such energies must be stable against the vacuum Cerenkov radiation process e ? e.

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• A relativistic charged particle from a proton decay would generate Cerenkov light in the water.

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• More than a thousand photomultiplier tubes, arrayed around the water, would record the Cerenkov pattern and thus determine the identity, energy, and direction of the decay products.

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• And indeed, one only gets sufficient Cerenkov light above background if the recoil energy of the struck electron exceeds a threshold of about 5 MeV.

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• After the 13,000 photomultiplier tubes that monitor for Cerenkov light were installed, filling with 50 kilotons of ultrapurified water began early in 1996.

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• So in 1978, Koshiba began to plan for the 3000-ton Kamiokande water Cerenkov detector inside a zinc mine west of Tokyo.

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• A water-Cerenkov detector sees solar neutrinos only by the recoil of electrons off which they scatter.

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• At these modest energies, the only way a neutrino can signal its presence in a traditional H2O Cerenkov detector is by elastic scattering off an electron.

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Cherenkov

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A Russian physicist who discovered the blue light from fast particles and won a Nobel Prize

refers to the same scientist but with alternate spelling and Soviet biographical detail

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