The Unruh Effect and Quantum Fluctuations of Electrons in Storage Rings
Jun, 198621 pages
Part of Quantum mechanics, high-energy physics and accelerators: Selected papers of John S. Bell with commentary, 488-508
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 284 (1987) 488
- Published: 1987
Report number:
- CERN-TH-4468/86
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The quantum fluctuation of electron orbits in ideal storage rings is a sort of Fulling-Unruh effect (heating by acceleration in vacuum). To spell this out, the effect is analyzed in an appropriate comoving, and so accelerating and rotating, co-ordinate system. The depolarization of the electrons is a related effect, but is greatly complicated by spin-orbit coupling. This analysis confirms the standard result for the polarization, except in the neighbourhood of a narrow resonance.- electron: storage ring
- beam dynamics: acceleration
- acceleration: beam dynamics
- transformation
- spin: force
- force: spin
- polarization
- model: thermodynamical
- Unruh effect
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