Why Cerenkov radiation may not occur, even when it Is allowed by Lorentz-violating kinematics

DOI10.3390/SYM9110250MaRDI QIDQ2333441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brett Altschul

Publication date 13 November 2019

Published in Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/sym9110250

zbMATH Keywords

Cerenkov radiationgauge invarianceLorentz symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Review text

Summary: In a Lorentz-violating quantum field theory, the energy-momentum relations for the field quanta are typically modified. This affects the kinematics, and processes that are normally forbidden may become allowed. One reaction that clearly becomes kinematically possible when photons' phase speeds are less than 1 is vacuum Cerenkov radiation. However, in spite of expectations, and in defiance of phase space estimates, a electromagnetic Chern-Simons theory with a timelike Lorentz violation coefficient does not feature any energy losses through Cerenkov emission. There is an unexpected cancelation, made possible by the existence of unstable long-wavelength modes of the field. The fact that the theory possesses a more limited form of gauge symmetry than conventional electrodynamics also plays a role.

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