Hard Polarized Photon Emission in Single Crystals by High Energy Electrons for Planar Crystal Orientations

The radiation emission spectra of polarized photons emitted from charge particle in single crystal are obtained in semiclassical theory in Baer-Katkov-Strakhovenko approximation for planar crystal orientation. The range of applicability of this approximation is estimated by comparing the results with calculations in exact semiclassical theory. Optimal crystal orientations for producing unpolarized and polarized photon beams are also founded.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, (wpapfig,epsfig

Background Thermal Contributions in Testing the Unruh Effect

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.Comment: 13 pages, (REVTEX 3.0), 3 figures available upon reques