# Vacuum Cherenkov radiation in spacelike Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory

@article{Kaufhold2007VacuumCR,
title={Vacuum Cherenkov radiation in spacelike Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory},
author={C. Kaufhold and F. R. Klinkhamer},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2007},
volume={76},
pages={025024}
}
• Published 24 April 2007
• Physics
• Physical Review D
A detailed analysis of vacuum Cherenkov radiation in spacelike Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) theory is presented. A semiclassical treatment reproduces the leading terms of the tree-level result from quantum field theory. Moreover, certain quantum corrections turn out to be suppressed for large energies of the charged particle, for example, the quantum corrections to the classical MCS Cherenkov angle. It is argued that MCS-theory Cherenkov radiation may, in principle, lead to anisotropy effects for…

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