Are Collapse Models Testable via Flavor Oscillations?
- Author(s)
- Sandro Donadi, Angelo Bassi, Catalina Curceanu, Antonio Di Domenico, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr
- Abstract
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.
- Organisation(s)
- Particle Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Università degli Studi di Trieste, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma, Sapienza University of Rome
- Journal
- Foundations of Physics
- Volume
- 43
- Pages
- 813-844
- No. of pages
- 32
- ISSN
- 0015-9018
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-013-9720-x
- Publication date
- 07-2013
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103036 Theoretical physics, 103005 Atomic physics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/are-collapse-models-testable-via-flavor-oscillations(f16db16b-e3c7-4995-a1d1-4c7d882e2879).html