2001/04/30 by Daniel A. T. Vanzella, George E. A. Matsas · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.87.151301
published as Phys.Rev.Lett.87:151301,2001 · 4 pages (revtex), 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
arxiv created 2001/07/24 · openalex publication_date 2001/09/25 · arxiv updated 2011/08/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We investigate the weak decay of uniformly accelerated protons in the context of standard quantum field theory. Because the mean proper lifetime of a particle is a scalar, the same value for this observable must be obtained in the inertial and coaccelerated frames. We are only able to achieve this equality by considering the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect. This reflects the fact that the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect is mandatory for the consistency of quantum field theory.