Hyperbolic recoil and the Unruh effect at CERN-NA63
Abstract
In this manuscript we examine the high energy channeling radiation data sets from the CERN-NA63 experiment using ultra relativistic synchrotron emission. To incorporate recoil, we examine the standard quasi-classical formalism as well as develop a formalism which includes the Unruh effect by utilizing a hyperbolic recoil acceleration, based on conservation of momentum, in the classical synchrotron trajectory. We also perform an asymptotic radiation time scale analysis which predicts a photon energy threshold, beyond which the Unruh effect dominates. We then compare the classical, quasi-classical, and Unruh synchrotron theories to the data. We find that above threshold, the Unruh effect saturates the spectrum of all data sets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.21292,
title = {Hyperbolic recoil and the Unruh effect at CERN-NA63},
author = {Morgan H. Lynch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.21292},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
15 pages, 12 figures