Vacuum Cherenkov radiation in Maxwell-Chern-Simons electrodynamics

Abstract

We study the Cherenkov effect in the context of the Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) limit of the Standard Model Extension. We present a method to determine the exact radiation rate for a point charge.

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, presented at the Third Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, August 2004