25–29 Aug 2025
Monona Terrace
US/Central timezone

Quantum Entanglement and Bell Inequality Violation in Semi-Leptonic Top Decays

25 Aug 2025, 14:00
20m
Room G (Monona Terrace)

Room G

Monona Terrace

Top Physics Parallel

Speaker

Arthur Wu

Description

Quantum entanglement is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics. Recently, studies have explored entanglement in the $t\bar{t}$ system at the Large Hadron Collider. In this talk, I will first introduce the search for evidence of quantum entanglement in the semi-leptonic decay channel of $t\bar{t}$. We find that this channel is both easier to reconstruct
and has a larger effective quantity of data than the fully leptonic channel, which is 60% more sensitive to quantum entanglement and a factor of 3 more sensitive to Bell inequality violation. Beyond the collider search, I will discuss the physics meaning of such entangled states, and some recent progress.

Authors

Arthur Wu Kun Cheng (University of Pittsburgh) Matthew Low (University of Pittsburgh) Tao Han

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