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Entanglement and Bell inequalities with boosted tt¯

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
  • 2. Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA

Description

The Large Hadron Collider provides a unique opportunity to study quantum entanglement and violation of Bell inequalities at the highest energy available today. In this paper, we will investigate these quantum correlations with top quark pair production, which represents a system of two-qubits. The semileptonic top pair channel has a factor of 6 increase in statistics and easier reconstruction with respect to the dileptonic channel. Although measuring the spin polarization of the hadronic top quark is known to be challenging, our study indicates that it is feasible to reconstruct the spin density matrix of the two-qubit system using an optimal hadronic polarimeter. This is achieved with the aid of jet substructure techniques and NN-inspired reconstruction methods, which improve the mapping between subjets and quarks. We find that entanglement can already be observed at more than the 5σ level with existing data, and violation of Bell inequalities may be probed above the 4σ level at the HL-LHC with 3ab1 of data.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.115023;
arXiv
arXiv:2305.07075;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100000015; 10.13039/100007859; 10.13039/100007069; 10.13039/100000001;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
12 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
DE-SC 0016013; DE-SC0024407; DE-SC0024407; OAC-1531128
Notes
Contact Email: cdong@ku.edu; Contact Email: dorival@okstate.edu; Contact Email: kckong@ku.edu; Contact Email: alberto.navarro_serratos@okstate.edu; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
U.S. Department of Energy; University of Kansas; Oklahoma State University; National Science Foundation