The HEGRA system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detects Cherenkov light produced by air showers. The concept of stereoscopic observation with the five HEGRA telescopes allows the reconstruction of various shower parameters, for example the shower direction, the location of the shower core and the energy of cosmic rays. One of the telescopes was modified so that measurements...

We have observed Cherenkov rings from minimum-ionizing particles using a low-pressure, parallel-plate pad-chamber with a cesium-iodide solid photocathode . This detector is blind to minimum-ionizing particles, and sensitive to Cherenkov photons of wavelengths 170-210 rim. An average of 5 photoelectrons per Cherenkov ring were detected using a 2-cm-thick radiator of liquid C6F14 . This paper rep...

A Cherenkov wake confined by perfectly reflecting transverse walls is amplified if the dielectric medium is active. Because of the multiple-reflections process, the effective gain of the wake is enhanced compared to a ray propagating in a straight line. Higher enhancement occurs when the electron velocity is close to the Cherenkov velocity. This Cherenkov wake can then accelerate a second bunch...

Relativistic plasma masers operating on the anomalous cyclotronCherenkov resonance ω − k‖v‖ + ωB/ γres = 0 and the Cherenkov-drift resonance ω − k‖v‖ − kxud = 0, are capable of explaining the main observational characteristics of pulsar radio emission. Both electromagnetic instabilities are due to the interaction of the fast particles from the primary beam and from the tail of the secondary pai...

The light signal measured by fluorescence telescopes receives strongly depending on the shower geometry with respect to the detector a non-negligible contribution from additionally produced Cherenkov light. This Cherenkov contribution has to be accounted for to determine primary parameters properly. In comparison to the previous ansatz used by other experiments, the impact of a new analytical d...

Super tau-Charm facility(STCF) is a future electron-position collider operating at energy region aimed to study hadron structure and spectroscopy. The baseline design of the STCF barrel particle identification(PID) detector in momentum range up 2 GeV/c provided by Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counter(RICH). architecture RICH an approximately focusing with liquid perfluorohexane sealed quartz containe...

The main contribution to the systematic uncertainties of Atmospheric Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) currently stems from the uncertainty in the determination of atmospheric properties for a given moment of observation. This technique uses the atmosphere as a calorimeter of gamma-ray induced atmospheric air showers and measures the amount of Cherenkov light collected by large mirrors and f...

Conventionally the Cherenkov sound is governed by orbital degrees of freedom and is excited by supersonic particles. Additionally, it usually has a forward nature with a conic geometry known as the Cherenkov cone whose axis is oriented along the supersonic particle motion. Here we predict Cherenkov sound of a unique nature entirely resulting from the electronic spin degree of freedom and demons...

BACKGROUND A feasibility study was done to assess the capability of digital silicon photomultipliers to measure the Cherenkov luminescence emitted by a β source. Cherenkov luminescence imaging (CLI) is possible with a charge coupled device (CCD) based technology, but a stand-alone technique for quantitative activity measurements based on Cherenkov luminescence has not yet been developed. Silico...

The DIRC (Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) is a new type of ring imaging Cherenkov detector which utilizes precisely machined quartz bars as Cherenkov radiators. Bar quality is determined by both laser and cosmic ray measurements. The Cherenkov photons are transported several meters along the bar until they reach the detector cavity where they are proximity focussed on an array...