No Lambda oscillations
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We examine a recently published calculation which predicts an oscillatory behaviour for the decay of Lambdas produced together with a neutral kaon, and proposes a new expression for the wavelength of kaon strangeness oscillations. We modify the calculation by imposing the requirement that the interference of the K_L and K_S components of the kaon wave function occurs at a specific space-time point. With this requirement, the unusual results predicted vanish, and the conventional results are recovered.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9605234,
title = {No Lambda oscillations},
author = {J. Lowe and B. Bassalleck and H. Burkhardt and A. Rusek and G. J. Stephenson and T. Goldman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9605234},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages Latex, no figures. Added Latex section omitted before