INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, May 1995

From: The Second DAFNE Physics Handbook

Chapter 2: Topics in Quantum Mechanics

Eds. L. Maiani, G. Pancheri, N. Paver

Supported by the INFN, by the EC under the HCM contract number CHRX-CT920026 and by the authors home institutions.



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Tests of Quantum Mechanics at a --Factory.

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Philippe H. Eberhard
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

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Abstract:

Unique tests of quantum mechanics, which can only be performed at a --factory, are proposed for Dane . Each of these tests consists of measuring the difference between the predicted and the actual amount of interference between two processes leading from a single pure initial state to a single pure final state of a kaon system.

Estimates are made of the upper limits that will be set for the amount of violation if the predictions of quantum mechanics turn out to be correct. They are of the order a fraction of one percent. For the case where, on the contrary, a significant violation is found, several decoherence mechanisms are considered.





Carlos E.Piedrafita