Equation 21 · Part 1 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

Symbol p_x

p_x(\Omega) = \frac{\mathcal F_x(\Omega)}{\displaystyle\int_0^\infty \mathcal F_x(\Omega')\, d\Omega'}, \qquad \Omega > 0,

p_x

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$p_x$ is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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$p_x$ is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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$\mathcal F_x(\Omega)$ , viewed as a function of $\Omega$ for fixed everything else, has a natural reading as a spectrum: it says how much excitation probability accumulates at each possible gap, for a whole notional bank of detectors sharing one trajectory, one switching profile, and one field state, differing only in $\Omega$ . Restricting to the excitation branch $\Omega$ >0 — “did this detector behave as though it absorbed a quantum” is the only branch this article treats as bearing on particle content, since the decay branch $\Omega$ <0 mixes genuine field structure with detector-specific spontaneous-emission physics that is present even in flat, empty spacetime with no field excitation at all —…

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Sources cited in the article section

[9] Asymptotic States of Accelerated Detectors and Universality of the Unruh Effect ↗

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