While these sorts of muon detectors are expensive ... it actually makes the operation much simpler, thanks to Cherenkov radiation. The speed of light in a vacuum is the absolute speed limit ...

For water at room temperature, this angle is 41º. In a water Cherenkov detector, the Cherenkov radiation is detected, usually by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and the cone of emission reconstructed.

KM3NeT (short for the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope) is a detector spanning a cubic ... await the faintest flash of blue light, called Cherenkov radiation. This blue glow is emitted when ...

Neutrinos may be the key to quantum gravity, potentially leading to a unified theory combining quantum mechanics and general relativity.

releasing faster-than-light particles and so causing a faint blue flash — the eerie Cherenkov radiation seen in nuclear reactor pools. However, detecting the flash and converting it into a ...

At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array ... an unprecedented view of the mysterious radiation he's spent his career studying.