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The role of Unruh effect in Bremsstrahlung

An equivalence is demonstrated, by an explicit first order quantum calculation, between the Minkowski photon emission rate in the inertial frame for an accelerating charge moving on a Rindler trajectory with additional transverse drift motion and the combined Rindler photon emission and absorption rate of the same charge in the Rindler frame in the presence of the Davies Unruh thermal bath. The equivalence also extends, for the Bremsstrahlung emitted by the same charge as calculated using the machinery of classical electrodynamics. The equivalence is shown to also hold for the case of accelerating charges moving on a Rindler trajectory with additional arbitrary transverse motion. Our results generalise those of Higuchi et. al. (1992) and of Cozzella et. al. (2017) for accelerated trajectories with circular transverse motion. Related issues and experimental implications are discussed.