Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 72 No. 6 (1984) pp. 1270-1272

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Letters

On the Response of a Particle Detector in a Circular Motion

Shin Takagi

Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980

(Received August 20, 1984)

Abstract:

We investigate the response of a particle detector coupled to a massless scalar field which is assumed to be in the Minkowski vacuum state. It is shown that the response of the detector in a high speed circular motion is the same as the one in a uniform linear acceleration superposed on a transverse translational motion.

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/72/1270/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.72.1270

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Citing Article(s) :

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Vacuum Noise and Stress Induced by Uniform Acceleration

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