Observability of spontaneous collapse in flavor oscillations and its relation to the CP and CPT symmetries
arXiv:2208.14383 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2022.128413
Abstract
Spontaneous collapse models aim at solving the measurement problem of quantum mechanics by introducing collapse of wave function as an ontologically objective mechanism that suppresses macroscopic superpositions. In particular, the strength of collapse depends on the mass of the system. Flavor oscillating systems such as neutral mesons feature superpositions of states of different masses and, hence, could be used to test the validity of spontaneous collapse models. Recently, it has been shown that the mass-proportional CSL model causes exponential damping of the neutral meson oscillations which, however, is not strong enough to be observed in the present accelerator facilities. In this Letter, we study how the violation of the symmetry in mixing changes the spontaneous collapse effect on flavor oscillations and its observability.
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