Quantum Entanglement and Thermal Behavior in Charged-Current Weak Interactions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-11-20 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We show that quantum entanglement between causally separated regions of a nucleon in antineutrino-nucleon scattering manifests itself as a thermal component in the resulting pion momentum distribution. For antineutrino scattering coherently from the (carbon) nucleus as a whole, this thermal component is absent, as expected by our quantum entanglement thermalization proposition. These phenomena, which have been observed in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, and in electromagnetic deep inelastic scattering, are now for the first time shown to exist in electroweak interactions as well.
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@article{arxiv.2010.00709,
title = {Quantum Entanglement and Thermal Behavior in Charged-Current Weak Interactions},
author = {G. Iskander and J. Pan and M. Tyler and C. Weber and O. K. Baker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.00709},
year = {2020}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures