| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8190982 | Physics Letters B | 2012 | 4 Pages | 
Abstract
												Varying the proposition that acceleration itself would simulate a thermal environment, we investigate the semiclassical photon radiation as a possible telemetric thermometer of accelerated charges. Based on the classical Jackson formula we obtain the equivalent photon intensity spectrum stemming from a constantly accelerated charge and demonstrate its resemblances to a thermal distribution for high transverse momenta. The inverse transverse slope differs from the famous Unruh temperature: it is larger by a factor of Ï. We compare the resulting direct photon spectrum with experimental data for Au-Au collisions at RHIC and speculate about further, analytically solvable acceleration histories.
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											Authors
												Tamás S. Biró, Miklós Gyulassy, Zsolt Schram, 
											