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Remarks on a Proposed Super-Kamiokande Test for Quantum Gravity Induced Decoherence Effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Lisi, Marrone, and Montanino have recently proposed a test for quantum gravity induced decoherence effects in neutrino oscillations observed at Super-Kamiokande. We comment here that their equations have the same qualitative form as the energy conserving objective state vector reduction equations discussed by a number of authors. However, using the Planckian parameter value proposed to explain state vector reduction leads to a neutrino oscillation effect many orders of magnitude smaller than would be detectable at Super-Kamiokande. Similar estimates hold for the Ghirardi, Rimini, and Weber spontaneous localization approach to state vector reduction, and our remarks are relevant as well to proposed KK meson and BB meson tests of gravity induced decoherence.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005220,
  title  = {Remarks on a Proposed Super-Kamiokande Test for Quantum Gravity Induced Decoherence Effects},
  author = {Stepehn L. Adler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005220},
  year   = {2009}
}

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