Affiliation:
1. School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
Abstract
In the system of a pair of quantum-entangled neutral kaons from meson decays, when one kaon collapses into the [Formula: see text] state, the other will collapse instantaneously into the [Formula: see text] state, due to entanglement and nonlocality. However, if the alternative hypothesis is correct and there is a time window during which one kaon is unaware that the other has decayed, some quantum mechanically prohibited [Formula: see text] decays may occur. We calculate the branching ratios of [Formula: see text] in vector meson decays under locality hypothesis and compare them with experimental results. We show that the branching ratio of [Formula: see text] under locality assumption is already excluded by the BESIII experimental upper limit. Additional experimental results are proposed to perform this test in the future.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
Subject
Astronomy and Astrophysics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics