tâbeš-e Čerenkov (#)
rayonnement de Čerenkov
Visible radiation emitted when → charged particles pass through a transparent medium faster than the speed of light in that medium.
Named after Pavel A. Čerenkov (1904-1990), Russian physicist, who discovered the phenomenon. He shared the Nobel prize 1958 in physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm, who in 1937 gave the theoretical explanation for this radiation.