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We consider the response of a uniformly accelerated monopole detector that iscoupled to a superposition of an odd and an even power of a quantized, masslessscalar field in flat spacetime in arbitrary dimensions. We show that, when thefield is assumed to be in the Minkowski vacuum, the response of the detector ischaracterized by a Bose-Einstein factor in even spacetime dimensions, whereas aBose-Einstein as well as a Fermi-Dirac factor appear in the detector responsewhen the dimension of spacetime is odd. Moreover, we find that, it is possibleto interpolate between the Bose-Einstein and the Fermi-Dirac distributions inodd spacetime dimensions by suitably adjusting the relative strengths of thedetector's coupling to the odd and the even powers of the scalar field. Wepoint out that the response of the detector is always thermal and we, finally,close by stressing the apparent nature of the appearance of the Fermi-Diracfactor in the detector response.Comment: RevTeX, 7 page

Letter: Interpolating Between the Bose-Einstein and the Fermi-Dirac Distributions in Odd Dimensions