Reply to "Comment on 'Background Thermal Contributions in Testing the Unruh effect' "

TL;DR

This paper responds to a comment on their previous work, clarifying that their conclusions about the negligible effect of background thermal bath on electron depolarization at LEP remain valid despite the comment's observations.

Contribution

The authors clarify that their original findings are unaffected by the comment, reaffirming that background thermal contributions are insignificant in their context.

Findings

The comment's assertion about detector velocity and excitation rate is acknowledged but does not alter the original results.

The main conclusion that the thermal bath's contribution is minimal in electron depolarization at LEP remains unchanged.

Abstract

Park et al's recent comment (hep-th/9605132) that for detectors with large energy gap in comparison with the temperature of the background thermal bath, the maximum excitation rate is obtained for some non-zero detector's velocity is correct but was previously discussed by ourselves elsewhere, and moreover does not affect in our paper above any mathematical formula, numerical result, and consequently our final conclusion that the background thermal bath does not contribute substantially in the depolarization of electrons at LEP.