Askaryan effect (English, noun)
expansion: Askaryan effect (plural Askaryan effects)
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The phenomenon whereby a particle traveling faster than the phase velocity of light in a dense dielectric (such as salt, ice or the lunar regolith) produces a shower of secondary charged particles which contains a charge anisotropy and emits a cone of coherent radiation in the radio or microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
tags: particle
Forms:
form: Askaryan effects
tags: plural