Spin correlations and Bell nonlocality in $\Lambda\bar\Lambda$ pair production from $e^+e^-$ collisions with a thrust cut
Abstract
We present a comprehensive theoretical study of spin correlations in production from annihilation, providing the theoretical predictions for the Belle II experiment. Using soft-collinear effective theory, we perform the first resummation of large logarithms for the longitudinal () and transverse () spin correlations for events with a cut on the thrust variable. Our calculation achieves next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and incorporates the determination of polarized fragmenting jet functions. This framework provides robust predictions with significantly reduced theoretical uncertainties compared to fixed-order parton model approaches. Furthermore, we establish a direct mapping between the experimentally accessible spin correlation, , and a testable CHSH-Bell inequality. This result reframes as a quantitative probe of quantum decoherence, providing a novel tool to measure the degree of parton-level entanglement that survives the fragmentation and hadronization process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.15387,
title = {Spin correlations and Bell nonlocality in $\Lambda\bar\Lambda$ pair production from $e^+e^-$ collisions with a thrust cut},
author = {Shi-Jia Lin and Ming-Jun Liu and Ding Yu Shao and Shu-Yi Wei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15387},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
32 pages, 5 figures, journal version