On the relation between Unruh and Sokolov--Ternov effects

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dc.creatorAkhmedov, Emil T.
dc.creatorSingleton, Douglas
dc.date2006-10-29
dc.date2007-05-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:02:02Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:02:02Z
dc.descriptionWe 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 $g \approx 2$, 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.
dc.description23 pages, no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610391
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610391
dc.identifierInt.J.Mod.Phys.A22:4797-4823,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1142/S0217751X07037081
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/188128
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectAccelerator Physics
dc.titleOn the relation between Unruh and Sokolov--Ternov effects
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