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Vanzella DA, Matsas GE. Decay of accelerated protons and the existence of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect. Phys Rev Lett. 2001;87(15):151301doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.151301.
Vanzella, D. A., & Matsas, G. E. (2001). Decay of accelerated protons and the existence of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect. Physical review letters, 87(15), 151301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.151301
Vanzella, D A, and Matsas, G E. "Decay of accelerated protons and the existence of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect." Physical review letters vol. 87,15 (2001): 151301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.151301
Vanzella DA, Matsas GE. Decay of accelerated protons and the existence of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect. Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Oct 08;87(15):151301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.151301. Epub 2001 Sep 25. PMID: 11580689.
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Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Oct 08;87(15):151301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.151301. Epub 2001 Sep 25.

Decay of accelerated protons and the existence of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect.

Physical review letters

D A Vanzella, G E Matsas

Affiliations

  1. Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

PMID: 11580689 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.151301

Abstract

We investigate the weak decay of uniformly accelerated protons in the context of standard quantum field theory. Because the mean proper lifetime of a particle is a scalar, the same value for this observable must be obtained in the inertial and coaccelerated frames. We are only able to achieve this equality by considering the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect. This reflects the fact that the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect is mandatory for the consistency of quantum field theory.

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