TRANSITION OF THE LIGHT VELOCITY IN THE VAVILOV-CERENKOV EFFECT

Citation
Gn. Afanasiev et al., TRANSITION OF THE LIGHT VELOCITY IN THE VAVILOV-CERENKOV EFFECT, Proceedings - Royal Society. Mathematical, physical and engineering sciences, 454(1972), 1998, pp. 1049-1072
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Proceedings - Royal Society. Mathematical, physical and engineering sciences
ISSN journal
13645021 → ACNP
Volume
454
Issue
1972
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1049 - 1072
Database
ISI
SICI code
1364-5021(1998)454:1972<1049:TOTLVI>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Accelerated and decelerated motions of a. charged point particle insid e medium are studied. It is shown explicitly that in addition to the b remsstrahlung and Cerenkov singular waves: previously unknown electrom agnetic singular wave should be observed. It arises when the charge ve locity coincides with the light velocity in medium. This wave has the same singularity as the Cerenkov one and, therefore, it is more singul ar than the bremsstrahlung wave. The spacetime regions where these wav es exist and conditions under which they appear are determined.