Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cherenkov radiation

Cherenkov radiation

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Jun 2016 at 22:15:58 (UTC)

Original – Cherenkov radiation, also known as Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation, is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium. The characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor, such as the Advanced Test Reactor shown here, is due to Cherenkov radiation.

Reason

This effect is described in an article I found some time back that always amused me, but the image illustrating it was below FP quality. At some point when I was not looking, that changed, and now this image is within FPC size guidelines so I am letting it have a run here to see if others think it to be worthy of a Featured Picture star. The image in question illustrates the Cherenkov effect, which creates a blue hue in nuclear material under certain circumstances. Although Cherenkov radiation had been theoretically predicted by the English polymath Oliver Heaviside in papers published in 1888–89, it was first detected experimentally in 1958 by Soviet scientist Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner. A theory of this effect was later developed within the framework of Einstein's special relativity theory by Igor Tamm and Ilya Frank, who also shared the Nobel Prize.

Articles in which this image appears

Advanced Test Reactor, Cherenkov radiation, Climate change mitigation, Doctor Manhattan, Idaho National Laboratory, List of light sources, Low-carbon power, Nuclear fuel, Pavel Cherenkov

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others

Creator

Argonne National Laboratory

• Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 22:15, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:23, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
• Support, assuming this blue tint is attributable to Cherenkov radiation. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:19, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
  • Should be, I mean that is what the photograph is supposed to show. That being said, if you'd like to get a second opinion from someone more photographically competent that me I have no objections. Double checking is always a good idea. TomStar81 (Talk) 05:08, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
    • I don't know anything about photographing nuclear reactors, and I don't know anyone who does. I'm just noting that a blue tint is possible with lighting etc. I'm not saying that's been done here. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:15, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
      • The source flickr account [1] belongs to a notable organization, and other google images of "Cherenkov radiation" confirm the blue tint. Bammesk (talk) 02:34, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 02:34, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 12:26, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Promoted File:Advanced Test Reactor.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:24, 11 June 2016 (UTC)