Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-09-03
Phys.Rev.Lett. 84 (2000) 2330-2333
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages with 3 figures; submitted to Physical Review Letters
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2330
Photons emitted from the electromagnetic fields of relativistic heavy ions can fluctuate into quark anti-quark pairs and scatter from a target nucleus, emerging as vector mesons. These coherent interactions are identifiable by final states consisting of the two nuclei and a vector meson with a small transverse momentum. The emitters and targets can switch roles, and the two possibilities are indistinguishable, so interference may occur. Vector mesons are negative parity so the amplitudes have opposite signs. When the meson transverse wavelength is larger than the impact parameter, the interference is large and destructive. The short-lived vector mesons decay before amplitudes from the two sources can overlap, and so cannot interfere directly. However, the decay products are emitted in an entangled state, and the interference depends on observing the complete final state. The non-local wave function is an example of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.
Klein Spencer R.
Nystrand Joakim
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