Talk:Detection of internally reflected Cherenkov light

Cherenkov formula in DIRC

I am inclined not to mention everything about Cherenkov radiation in this DIRC article but to reference the relevant articles and concentrate on the specific properties of a DIRC. -- KlausFoehl (talk) 13:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Photo candidate for DIRC visualisation

Laser beam in acrylic glass plate

It is only a laser beam with total internal reflection and no Cherenkov light, nevertheless this image can visualise how the angle is preserved as the light zigzags along. -- KlausFoehl (talk) 14:11, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

DIRC lemma and acronym expansion

Regarding the use of the DIRC acronym one finds both "Detect_or [of|for]" and "Detect_ion of" in the scientific papers and community. Often one reads about DIRC detector, hence the -ion version would be less of a tautology. Further, I want to suggest to capitalise the I and the R in the Lemma, i.e. it would read
Detection of Internally-Reflected Cherenkov light
Thoughts and discussion... -- KlausFoehl (talk) 11:30, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 16:46, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light → Detection of internally reflected Cherenkov light –

It's just a scientific instrument (lowercase "l" was already in the title). Per WP:CAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony (talk) 12:41, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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further image

-- KlausFoehl (talk) 16:53, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

DIRC was first proposed by Blair Ratcliff?

There is a book about Cherenkov radiation, "Cerenkov Radiation and its applications" by J.V. Jelley, published 1958. On page 138 the idea of a Cherenkov counter based on total internal reflexion is presented. The person which has proposed this is named Porter, but no references are given. -- AdrianZink 10:46, 15 January 2014 (UTC)