they set off a cascade of other particles that travel through the water faster than light does. This creates a flash of light ...

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 ...

Cherenkov radiation is a phenomenon that occurs when charged particles, such as electrons, travel through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium. This effect ...

thanks to Cherenkov radiation. The speed of light in a vacuum is the absolute speed limit of the universe. Nothing will go faster than 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second ...

Nothing can travel faster ... a water Cherenkov detector, the Cherenkov radiation is detected, usually by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and the cone of emission reconstructed. The axis of the cone ...