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Hi everyone,
I just have a question regarding a project I'm doing at the moment. I decided to write about the detection of neutrinos, and hence have to explain the Cerenkov effect which is used in the water detectors. What I can't understand is that, from what I've read so far, the Cerenkov effect only works for charged particles, and neutrinos have no charge! Can someone explain why the effect still occurs? Also, why is the light produced necessarily blue? I've seen why the angle produced occurs, but nothing I've read mentions the energy of the photons produced.
Thanks so much for any help
I just have a question regarding a project I'm doing at the moment. I decided to write about the detection of neutrinos, and hence have to explain the Cerenkov effect which is used in the water detectors. What I can't understand is that, from what I've read so far, the Cerenkov effect only works for charged particles, and neutrinos have no charge! Can someone explain why the effect still occurs? Also, why is the light produced necessarily blue? I've seen why the angle produced occurs, but nothing I've read mentions the energy of the photons produced.
Thanks so much for any help