Testing EPR locality using B-mesons

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Ichikawa, Tsubasa [1 ]
Tamura, Satoshi [1 ]
Tsutsui, Izumi [1 ]
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[1] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
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10.1016/j.physleta.2008.10.013
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We study the possibility of testing local realistic theory (LRT) based on the Bell inequality for the correlations in the decay modes of entangled K or B-mesons. It is shown that such a test is possible for a restricted class of LRT, despite the passive nature of decay events and/or the non-unitary treatment of the correlations which invalidate the test for general LRT. Unfortunately, the present setup of the KEKB (Belle) experiment, where the coherence of entangled B-mesons has been confirmed recently, does not admit Such a test due to the indeterminacy in the separate decay times of the entangled pairs. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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