Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field square and the
energy-momentum tensor are investigated for a massive scalar field with an
arbitrary curvature coupling parameter in the region between two infinite
parallel plates moving by uniform proper acceleration. We assume that the field
is prepared in the Fulling-Rindler vacuum state and satisfies Robin boundary
conditions on the plates. The mode-summation method is used with a combination
of a variant of the generalized Abel-Plana formula. This allows to extract
manifestly the contributions to the expectation values due to a single boundary
and to present the second plate-induced parts in terms of exponentially
convergent integrals. Various limiting cases are investigated. The vacuum
forces acting on the boundaries are presented as a sum of the self-action and
'interaction' terms. The first one contains well known surface divergences and
needs a further renormalization. The 'interaction' forces between the plates
are investigated as functions of the proper accelerations and coefficients in
the boundary conditions. We show that there is a region in the space of these
parameters in which the 'interaction' forces are repulsive for small distances
and attractive for large distances.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures, discussion added, accepted for publication in
Int. J. Mod. Phys.