The electric field of a charged particle passing through or near an optical fiber induces a transient charges and currents in the fibrer medium (1; 2). These charges and current radiates electromagnetic waves, both outside the fiber (free light) and inside (guided light). This chapter is devoted to the guided light, which will be referred to as PIGL, for Particle Induced Guided Light. If the fi...

Simulation of gamma and hadron showers in the energy range 100GeV- 25TeV has been carried out. For a big ideal Cherenkov light array, characteristics of lateral distribution of Cherenkov photon density have been studied. Results from this ideal detector are compared with those simulated for a real TUNKA- like array to investigate experimental potential of using existence of a hump in lateral di...

A new elementary mechanism of radiation due to the oscillatory character of a radiation reaction force appearing when a relativistic charged particle moves along a periodic structure without external fields is investigated. It is shown that the nonsynchronous spatial harmonics of Cherenkov-type radiation (CR) can give rise to the oscillation of a particle which consequently generates undulator-...

A number of methods for producing sub-picosecond electron bunches have been demonstrated in recent years. A train of these bunches is capable of generating THz radiation via multiple mechanisms like transition, Cherenkov and undulator radiation. We propose to use a bunch train like this to selectively excite a high order mode in a dielectric wakefield structure. This allows us to use wakefield ...

Terahertz quantum cascade laser sources based on intra-cavity frequency mixing are currently the only monolithic electrically pumped semiconductor devices that can operate in the 1–6 THz spectral range at room temperature. The introduction of the Cherenkov waveguide scheme in these devices grown on semi-insulating InP substrates enabled generation of tens of microwatts of average terahertz powe...

Milagro is a unique water Cherenkov detector designed for very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. The water Cherenkov technique gives Milagro an unprecedented sensitivity and energy threshold. A deep detector layer is used to identify penetrating particles (muons and hadrons) present in hadron induced showers allowing for the rejection of backgrounds which substantially increases sensitivit...

The recent detection of gamma radiation from Mkn 501 at energies as high as 25 TeV suggests stringent upper bounds on the diiuse, far infrared, extragalactic radiation density. The production of electron-positron pairs through photon-photon collisions would prevent gamma photons of substantially higher energies from reaching us across distances of order 100 Mpc. However, coherently arriving TeV...

We have studied a new type of double-negative metamaterials (DNMs) composed of split ring resonators (SRRs) and wire strips with substrate teflon, suitable for generation of reversed Cherenkov radiation (RCR) which is TM radiation. We have experimentally observed a narrow pass band in a circular waveguide partially loaded with the DNMs and stop bands for SRRs-only with teflon and for wire strip...