Archive - EP Seminar (until 2008)

Testing Bell Inequality with B-mesons at BELLE experiment

by Apollo Go (National Central University, Taiwan)

Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Description
According to Quantum Mechanics, a pair of particles created in any interaction exhibits EPR type of non-local correlation. In 1964, CERN physicist J.S. Bell put the non-locality in a testable form, the so-called Bell Inequality. It has since been tested with polarization in photons and spin in atoms but never with particle-antiparticle in elementary massive particles. In particle physics, both Φ → K0 Kbar0 and Υ(4S) → B0Bbar0 exhibit the same EPR non-local correlation. In this talk, I will discuss the similarities and differences of these decays with the spin 1/2 and photon system. I will then discuss the possibility of testing Bell Inequality. Finally, the preliminary result of violation of Bell Inequality using semileptonic B0 decays at BELLE experiment in KEK will be presented.

Organiser(s): C. Amelung / EP Division

Note: Tea & coffee will be served at 16:00 hrs.
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