1994/12/09 by Sandro Silva e Costa, Sandro S. Costa, George E. A. Matsas · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Thermal #Thermodynamics #Unruh effect #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.52.3466
published as Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 3466-3471 · 13 pages, (REVTEX 3.0), 3 figures available upon request
arxiv created 1994/12/09 · openalex publication_date 1995/09/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider inertial and acclerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving in a background thermal bath and calculate their excitation rate. It is shown that for fast moving detectors such a thermal bath does not affect substantially the excitation probability. Our results are discussed in connection with a possible proposal of testing the Unruh effect in high energy particle accelerators.