チェレンコフ効こう果か

noun

Cherenkov effect

Physics term for the emission of light when a charged particle passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium.

• チェレンコフ効こう果かは原げん子し炉ろの冷れい却きゃく水すいで青あお白じろい光ひかりとして観かん測そくされる。

  The Cherenkov effect is observed as a bluish light in the cooling water of nuclear reactors.