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Hypothesis Tests for Observing Quantum Entanglement in HWW at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2026-05-20 v1

Abstract

We present a novel experimental strategy for testing quantum entanglement in Higgs boson decays to WW boson pairs at the Large Hadron Collider. Unlike theoretical approaches that rely on expectation values of Bell operators, which are highly sensitive to outliers and detector effects, we introduce a continuous formulation of the CGLMP inequality that enables standard hypothesis testing between entangled and separable states. To overcome the fundamental challenge of reconstructing invisible neutrino momenta in the HWWννH \rightarrow WW^* \rightarrow \ell\nu\ell\nu channel, we employ conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models (cDDPM), which provide unbiased, multidimensional unfolding applicable to the full measured dataset, including backgrounds. We evaluate the diffusion-based reconstruction against analytical methods through profile likelihood hypothesis tests implemented in RooFit, with systematic uncertainties from background normalisation and unfolding shape fully propagated. Our results demonstrate that the diffusion-based approach enables robust hypothesis testing of quantum entanglement in a realistic collider environment, with 3σ\sigma evidence of quantum entanglement projected at approximately 555~fb1^{-1} and exceeding 5σ\sigma at 1600~fb1^{-1} to be well within the expected limits of the HL-LHC luminosity targets.

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@article{arxiv.2605.19754,
  title  = {Hypothesis Tests for Observing Quantum Entanglement in HWW at the LHC},
  author = {Vincent Alexander Croft and Lennart Voelz and Andrii Vak and Andre Sopczak and Carsten Burgard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19754},
  year   = {2026}
}