As they decelerate, they emit light called Cherenkov radiation, which some of IceCube's 5160 light detectors
may pick up.
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It is named after Russian scientist Pave Alekseyevich Cherenkov, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner who was
the first to detect it experimentally.
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It is named after Soviet scientist Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner who was
the first to detect it experimentally.
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Cherenkov radiation(pronunciation:/tʃɛrɛnˈkɔv/) is an electromagnetic radiation emitted
when a charged particle(such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium.