Cerenkov

This sort of shock wave is called Cerenkov radiation, and it is VERY useful to us experimental types because it tells us we have a very fast particle going through our detectors.

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The discovery of the phenomenon now known as the Cerenkov effect, for which the Nobel Prize is today being awarded, is an interesting example of how a relatively simple physical observation, if followed through in the right way, can lead to important findings and open up new paths to research.

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Sizewell B. Gordon lowered himself with grim determination into the cooling waters of the reactor, and bathed in the rejuvenating and transformative blue glow of the Cerenkov radiation.

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Sizewell B. Gordon lowered himself with grim determination into the cooling waters of the reactor, and bathed in the rejuvenating and transformative blue glow of the Cerenkov radiation.

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Such things have been observed quite often, and we use this effect to measure high-energy-radiation by their Cerenkov light emission HESS e.g.

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On Guang's monitor the clear air above Chengdu glowed with a purple line of Cerenkov radiation disappearing into space.

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When attached to the new high-gain photomultiplier tubes and strung into the array of amplifiers, pulse-height analyzers, and scalers that emerged from the Rad Lab and Los Alamos, then and only then did the scintillator and Cerenkov radiation became part of the material culture of postwar physics.

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How does Cerenkov radiation reconcile with relativity?

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Cerenkov radiation deals with particles traveling through a medium (ie water) faster the the speed of light in that medium.

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Acquire data (PMT noise, Cerenkov light in the envelope, and other known nuisances in this case) and demonstrate that the modulation is absent then, that the effect was in the NaI scintillation.

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