Light Cone 2026: Applications at EIC era (LC 2026)

Insights from Light-Front Quantization on the Unruh Effect

Jun 24, 2026, 11:30 AM

30m

CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building (Stony Brook University/Online)

QCD Dynamics, Instantons, and Nuclear Structure QCD Dynamics, Instantons, and Nuclear Structure

Speaker

Alexandre Deur (Jefferson Lab)

Description

The Unruh effect is a widely accepted expectation that the virtual particles of the Instant-Form vacuum appear to an accelerated observer as a gas of real particles at a temperature proportional to the acceleration. In this talk, we will show that the effect is absent in a Front-Form analysis, therefore questioning its objective existence, and how the Front-Form and Instant-Form conclusions may be reconciled.