Published December 22, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Testing EPR locality using B-mesons

  • 1. Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801 (Japan)

Description

We study the possibility of testing local realistic theory (LRT) based on the Bell inequality for the correlations in the decay modes of entangled K or B-mesons. It is shown that such a test is possible for a restricted class of LRT, despite the passive nature of decay events and/or the non-unitary treatment of the correlations which invalidate the test for general LRT. Unfortunately, the present setup of the KEKB (Belle) experiment, where the coherence of entangled B-mesons has been confirmed recently, does not admit such a test due to the indeterminacy in the separate decay times of the entangled pairs

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2008.10.013

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2008.10.013;
arXiv
arXiv:0805.3632v2;
PII
S0375-9601(08)01496-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
373
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 39-44
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40053387
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
B MESONS; BELL THEOREM; CORRELATIONS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; LOCALITY; PARTICLE DECAY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
Descriptors DEC
BEAUTY MESONS; BEAUTY PARTICLES; BOSONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MESONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; RESONANCE

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Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.