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Equation 107 · Part 2 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

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DdetD_{\rm det}
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No experiment has isolated an Unruh-like signal from this system, and this article does not claim otherwise. Measured storage-ring polarizations match the standard Sokolov-Ternov prediction, once ordinary QED corrections are included, at the percent level, and circular motion is not uniform linear acceleration — a fact Bell and Leinaas themselves stressed, since the field seen by a circulating charge is not simply a Rindler wedge, and the comparison to DdetD_{\rm det} 's idealized eternal-linear-acceleration spectrum is only approximate even before synchrotron backgrounds are considered. What the storage-ring case does supply, honestly, is a parameter range: it is the one setting where the…

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