CP violation in correlated production and decay of unstable particles

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.11.022zbMATH Open1246.81028arXiv1108.3314OpenAlexW2133063324MaRDI QIDQ447232FDOQ447232

Apostolos Pilaftsis, Olaf Kittel

Publication date: 3 September 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study resonant CP-violating Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen correlations that may take place in the production and decay of unstable scalar particles at high-energy colliders. We show that as a consequence of unitarity and CPT invariance of the S-matrix, in 2 --> 2 scatterings mediated by mixed scalar particles, at least three linearly independent decay matrices associated with the unstable scalar states are needed to obtain non-zero CP-odd observables that are also odd under C-conjugation. Instead, for the correlated production and decay of two unstable particle systems in 2 --> 4 processes, we find that only two independent decay matrices are sufficient to induce a net non-vanishing CP-violating phenomenon. As an application of this theorem, we present numerical estimates of CP asymmetries for the correlated production and decay of supersymmetric scalar top--anti-top pairs at the LHC, and demonstrate that these could reach values of order one. As a byproduct of our analysis, we develop a novel spinorial trace technique, which enables us to efficiently evaluate lengthy expressions of squared amplitudes describing the resonant scalar transitions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3314

zbMATH Keywords

collider phenomenologyEPR correlationresonant CP violation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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Cited In (2)

• On masses of unstable particles and their antiparticles in the CPT-invariant system
• CP violation in sbottom decays

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