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Radiation Emitted by Uniformly Moving Electrons

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If the velocity of an electron traversing a ponderable medium exceeds the velocity of light in the medium the electron emits a coherent radiation even if it moves with a constant velocity. Frank and Tamm have shown in 1937 that the peculiar visible radiation emitted by liquids and solids bombarded by fast electrons, which was discovered by Cerenkov in 1934, is of this nature.

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  1. Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR

    Ig. Tamm

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  1. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Lenin Prospect 53, SU-117924, Moscow, USSR

    Boris M. Bolotovskii

  2. A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya 26, SU-194021, St. Peterburg K-21, USSR

    Victor Ya. Frenkel

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    Rudolf Peierls

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Tamm, I. (1991). Radiation Emitted by Uniformly Moving Electrons. In: Bolotovskii, B.M., Frenkel, V.Y., Peierls, R. (eds) Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74626-0_3

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