Slowing-down of relativistic heavy ions and its influence on angular distributions of Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation

First studies of 500-nm Cherenkov radiation from 255-MeV electrons in a diamond crystal

“…Although it has a long history and although there are applications in detector physics for Cherenkov radiation (ChR) [1], many fundamental properties of ChR emanating from different types of relativistic particles and ions have not yet been studied in detail (see, for example, [2][3][4][5] and the references therein). Generally, an incident particle is assumed to move linearly within a solid target.…”

“…These effects have already been investigated in Refs. [2][3][4][5]. Another factor is the crystal-orientation effect.…”

Interference effects in angular and spectral distributions of X-ray Transition Radiation from Relativistic Heavy Ions crossing a radiator: Influence of absorption and slowing-down

“…In our previous works [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] we have shown that the RHI slowing-down leads to the appearance of very specific diffraction-like structure in both spectral and angular distributions of the Cherenkov radiation (ChR) compared to the standard TammFrank theory. In this paper we consider the influence of RHI slowing-down on another type of radiation from RHI -X-ray Transition Radiation (XTR).…”