ON THE RELATION BETWEEN UNRUH AND SOKOLOV–TERNOV EFFECTS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X07037081MaRDI QIDQ3504083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emil T. Akhmedov, Douglas Singleton

Publication date 11 June 2008

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610391

zbMATH Keywords

quantum fields in noninertial reference framesSolokov-Ternov effectUnruh effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We show that the Sokolov--Ternov effect -- the depolarization of particles in storage rings coming from synchrotron radiation due to spin flip transitions -- is physically equivalent to the Unruh effect for circular acceleration if one uses a spin 1/2 particle as the Unruh--DeWitt detector. It is shown that for the electron, with gyromagnetic number $gapprox2$, the exponential contribution to the polarization, which usually characterizes the Unruh effect, is "hidden" in the standard Sokolov-Ternov effect making it hard to observe. Thus, our conclusions are different in detail from previous work.

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