Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8190982 Physics Letters B 2012 4 Pages PDF
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 π. 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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