Published July 15, 1987
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Journal article
Gravitational acceleration of relativistic particles at finite temperature
Creators
- 1. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica dell'Universita, Corso M.D'Azeglio 46, 10125 Torino, Italy and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Italy
Description
Starting from the explicit expression of a generalized energy-momentum tensor, representing the effective source of gravity at finite temperature, it is shown that, in the case of a weak, static field and in the low-temperature limit, the thermal corrections to the gravitational acceleration of a relativistic test particle do not depend on its kinetic energy, and that the only effect is a constant, mass-dependent shift of the gravitational to inertial mass ratio, just as in the case, previously discussed, of nonrelativistic test bodies
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 36
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 617-619
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18077315
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FIELD EQUATIONS; FREE ENERGY; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; PARTICLE KINEMATICS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; RENORMALIZATION; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEST PARTICLES
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY; ENERGY RANGE; EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY; TENSORS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES