Publication details
Are Collapse Models Testable via Flavor Oscillations?
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Foundations of Physics |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10701-013-9720-x |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10701-013-9720-x |
| Field | Elementary particles and high-energy physics |
| Keywords | collapse model; flavor oscillation; mass eigenstates |
| Description | Collapse models predict the spontaneous collapse of the wave function, in order to avoid the emergence of macroscopic superpositions. In their mass-dependent formulation, they claim that the collapse of any system’s wave function depends on its mass. Neutral K, D, B mesons are oscillating systems that are given by Nature as superposition of two distinct mass eigenstates. Thus they are unique laboratory for testing collapse models that are sensitive to the mass. In this paper we derive - for the single mesons and bipartite entangled mesons - the effect of the mass-proportional CSL (Continuous Spontaneous Localization) collapse model on the dynamics on neutral mesons. We compare the theoretical prediction with experimental data from different accelerator facilities. |
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