Researchers claim experiments that successfully detected the Sokolov–Ternov effect may also detect the Unruh effect under certain conditions.
Theoretical work in 2011 suggests that accelerating detectors could be used for the direct detection of the Unruh effect with current technology.
The Unruh effect may have been observed for the first time in 2019 in the high energy channeling radiation explored by the NA63 experiment at CERN.