Towards a test of the Born rule in high-energy collisions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07510v2
• Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 03:12:42 GMT
• Title: Towards a test of the Born rule in high-energy collisions
• Authors: Antony Valentini, Mira Varma,
• Abstract summary: We consider how the Born rule, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, could be tested for particles created on the shortest timescales.<n>We focus on targeted tests of the Born rule for spin or polarisation probabilities, which offer a particularly clean experimental signal.
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• Abstract: We consider how the Born rule, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, could be tested for particles created on the shortest timescales ($\sim10^{-25}\,\mathrm{s}$) currently accessible at high-energy colliders. We focus on targeted tests of the Born rule for spin or polarisation probabilities, which offer a particularly clean experimental signal, and which can be described by a simple hidden-variables model of two-state systems proposed by Bell. These probabilities test a remarkable feature of the quantum formalism, whereby expectation values for incompatible experiments are linearly related. Born-rule violations can be parameterised by nonlinear expectation values for quantum measurements of spin or polarisation, along with anomalies in ensemble averages, which are to be constrained by experiment. Notable experiments considered here include the recent detection of single photons from top-quark decay, and the indirect measurement of tau-lepton polarisation. Repurposing these experiments as tests of the Born rule, however, presents several challenges, which are discussed in this paper.

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