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Quantum entanglement and Bell inequality violation at colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-12-20 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment Quantum Physics

Abstract

The study of entanglement in particle physics has been gathering pace in the past few years. It is a new field that is providing important results about the possibility of detecting entanglement and testing Bell inequality at colliders for final states as diverse as top-quark, τ\tau-lepton pairs and Λ\Lambda-baryons, massive gauge bosons and vector mesons. In this review, after presenting definitions, tools and basic results that are necessary for understanding these developments, we summarize the main findings -- as published by the beginning of year 2024 -- including analyses of experimental data in BB meson decays and top-quark pair production. We include a detailed discussion of the results for both qubit and qutrits systems, that is, final states containing spin one-half and spin one particles. Entanglement has also been proposed as a new tool to constrain new particles and fields beyond the Standard Model and we introduce the reader to this promising feature as well.

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@article{arxiv.2402.07972,
  title  = {Quantum entanglement and Bell inequality violation at colliders},
  author = {Alan J. Barr and Marco Fabbrichesi and Roberto Floreanini and Emidio Gabrielli and Luca Marzola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07972},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Review article, references and text updated, figure 4.5 corrected

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