Particle production by a relativistic semitransparent mirror in (1+3)D Minkowski spacetime

Lin, Kuan-Nan; Chou, Chih-En; Chen, Pisin

doi:10.1103/physrevd.103.025014

Particle production by a relativistic semitransparent mirror in (1+3)D Minkowski spacetime

Journal Article · Thu Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.025014· OSTI ID:1768230

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National Taiwan Univ. (China)

Production of massless, scalar particles by a relativistic, semitransparent, plane mirror in (1+3)D Minkowski spacetime based on the Barton-Calogeracos (BC) action is investigated. The corresponding Bogoliubov coefficients are derived for a mirror with arbitrary, relativistic trajectories. We apply our derived formula to two specific trajectories. One is commonly used in the (1+1)D literature to mimic gravitational collapse theoretically, and the other is proposed to be realizable experimentally. In addition, we identify the relation between the particle spectrum and the particle production probability, and we demonstrate the equivalence between our approach and the existing approach in the literature, which is restricted to (1+1)D. In short, our treatment extends the study to (1+3)D spacetime for a relativistic, plane mirror. Finally, we offer a third approach for finding the particle spectrum using the S-matrix formalism.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1768230

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 103; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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