Quantum Entanglement and Thermal Behavior in Charged-Current Weak Interactions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00709v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 22:22:05 GMT
• Title: Quantum Entanglement and Thermal Behavior in Charged-Current Weak Interactions
• Authors: G. Iskander, J. Pan, M. Tyler, C. Weber, O.K. Baker
• Abstract summary: We show that quantum entanglement between causally separated regions of a nucleon in antineutrino-nucleon scattering manifests itself as a thermal component in the resulting pion momentum distribution. For antineutrino scattering coherently from the (carbon) nucleus as a whole, this thermal component is absent, as expected by our quantum entanglement thermalization proposition.
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• Abstract: We show that quantum entanglement between causally separated regions of a nucleon in antineutrino-nucleon scattering manifests itself as a thermal component in the resulting pion momentum distribution. For antineutrino scattering coherently from the (carbon) nucleus as a whole, this thermal component is absent, as expected by our quantum entanglement thermalization proposition. These phenomena, which have been observed in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, and in electromagnetic deep inelastic scattering, are now for the first time shown to exist in electroweak interactions as well.

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