Information Content of Polarization Measurements

Details Information Content of Polarization Measurements Information Content of Polarization Measurements

2010-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5250v2

Phys.Rev.C82:025204,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

19 pages, 4 figures; figures updated, minor textual corrections

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.82.025204

Information entropy is applied to the state of knowledge of reaction amplitudes in pseudoscalar meson photoproduction, and a scheme is developed that quantifies the information content of a measured set of polarization observables. It is shown that this definition of information is a more practical measure of the quality of a set of measured observables than whether the combination is a mathematically complete set. It is also shown that when experimental uncertainty is introduced, complete sets of measurements do not necessarily remove ambiguities, and that experiments should strive to measure as many observables as practical in order to extract amplitudes.

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