Equation 49 · No Particle Without a Cosigner
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The first check any new object owes the literature is that it reproduce the literature’s own answer in the case the literature has already solved. For a worldline held at constant proper acceleration a forever, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field in the ordinary vacuum, with the switching left on for all time, the Wightman function depends only on the proper-time separation and the standard Fourier transform is exact and textbook: the excitation-branch rate per unit proper time takes the Bose-Einstein form
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- [7] Vacuum Noise and Stress Induced by Uniform Acceleration: Hawking-Unruh Effect in Rindler Manifold of Arbitrary Dimension ↗
- [8] Unruh-DeWitt Detector Event Rate for Trajectories with Time-Dependent Acceleration ↗
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