Cherenkov

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• Researchers are developing new instruments to enhance the detection of Cherenkov radiation produced by cosmic rays.

• The reaction produces Cherenkov radiation—a distinctive array of photons in the water that is picked up by the photomultiplier tubes and reported to the recorder.

  Fiction book (2000)

• It looks like a Cherenkov light.

  King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)

• One sign of tachyons would be Cherenkov radiation, the optical equivalent of sonic booms.

  Academic text (1996)

• The arrival times of the Cherenkov photons, recorded by the grid of optical detectors, are used to reconstruct the direction of the radiating muon.

  Academic text (2000)

• Super Kamiokande is the gargantuan 50-kiloton water-Cherenkov neutrino detector buried 1 kilometer under a mountain not far from the conference site.

  Academic text (1998)

• Just like a boat exceeding the speed of the waves in its wake, a high-energy muon, traveling faster than the speed of light in ice, will radiate photons that produce the characteristic light pattern of a bow-wave or "Cherenkov cone" as shown in the figure here.

  Academic text (2000)

• The experiment demonstrated the principle of Cherenkov radiation by showing the blue light emitted when a particle exceeded the speed of light in water.

• Scientists observed Cherenkov light in the tank as high-energy particles traveled faster than light in the water.

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