Quantum Entanglement in Top Quark Pair Production
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07788v3
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:56:43 GMT
- Title: Quantum Entanglement in Top Quark Pair Production
- Authors: Mira Varma, O.K. Baker
- Abstract summary: We show that even with the most massive fundamental particle, we see the same manifestation of entanglement observed in both electroweak and electromagnetic interactions.
The presence of entanglement implies the coexistence of both thermal and hard scattering components in the transverse momentum distribution.
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- Abstract: Top quarks, the most massive particles in the standard model, attract
considerable attention since they decay before hadronizing. This presents
physicists with a unique opportunity to directly investigate their properties.
In this letter, we expand upon the work of G. Iskander, J. Pan, M. Tyler, C.
Weber and O. K. Baker to demonstrate that even with the most massive
fundamental particle, we see the same manifestation of entanglement observed in
both electroweak and electromagnetic interactions. We propose that the thermal
component resulting from protons colliding into two top quarks emerges from
entanglement within the two-proton wave function. The presence of entanglement
implies the coexistence of both thermal and hard scattering components in the
transverse momentum distribution. We use published ATLAS and CMS results to
show that the data exhibits the expected behavior.
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