We consider inertial and accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving in a background thermal bath and calculate their excitation rates. It is shown that for fast moving detectors such a thermal bath does not affect substantially the excitation probability. Our results are discussed in connection with a possible proposal of testing the Unruh effect in high energy particle accelerators.
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9412030,
title = {Background Thermal Contributions in Testing the Unruh Effect},
author = {Sandro S. Costa and George E. A. Matsas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9412030},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, (REVTEX 3.0), 3 figures available upon request