We report on the observation of thermal photons from an accelerated electron via examination of radiative beta decay of free neutrons measured by the RDK II collaboration. The emitted photon spectrum is shown to corroborate a thermal distribution consistent with the dynamical Casimir effect. Supported by a robust chi-squared statistic, we find the photons reside in a one-dimensional Planck spectrum with a temperature predicted by the moving mirror model.
@article{arxiv.2211.14774,
title = {Accelerated electron thermometer: observation of 1D Planck radiation},
author = {Morgan H. Lynch and Evgenii Ievlev and Michael R. R. Good},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14774},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
17 pages, 6 figures: Accepted for publication at Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics