Dear researchers of subatomic, quantum plasma and nuclear reactions
Please be pleased and sorry for disturbing the time.
Is it possible for the sub-atomic fractions of Kaon and Muon-Hadron pairs to affect the acceleration of photons when the Cerenkov effect occurs under Dirac conditions for plasma quantum basis calculations in certain media in a nuclear reactor installed power of more than 150 MW?
Thank you very much for allowing the answer.
Greetings fellow researchers,
Moh. Hardiyanto (INDONESIA)
No, because the photons aren’t accelerated; they move at the speed of light in the medium, which is constant. Cherenkov radiation is classical electrodynamics, anyway: If an electric charge moves in a medium at a-uniform-speed, greater than the speed of light in the medium (but, of course, less than the speed of light in vacuum)-then it radiates electromagnetic waves, even without accelerating-that's the non-trivial statement.
It is possible to describe the process in ``particle language'', where a charged particle (the only kind that can interact with a photon) emits a photon: This process is impossible in vacuum, where the charged particle always moves at a speed less than that of the photon; it becomes possible, in a medium, where the charged particle can move faster than the photon (with both in the medium), but it's not necessary to be able to resolve the individual photons; classical electrodynamics suffices.
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