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3.3 events

 

Another possible test consists of measuring the number of pairs of in the same event. As obviously shown by Eq. (8), quantum mechanics predicts no such pair in any event. That same prediction can be obtained using Eq. (7) instead, as the result of a 100% destructive interference effect between the process where the decays into on the left and on the right and the process where it is the other way around. If the interference term were reduced by a factor , there would be some events and their number would be

To identify two- events in the KLOE detector, the signature can be two particles decaying or interacting at a large distance from the interaction point. Some background is going to be generated by or events where the decays via the two- mode and the 's from decays get confused with a decay or interaction, but it is beyond the scope of this paper to estimate this effect. The background yields :

If that background and the statistical error were the only limitations, one could detect values of as low as 10.



Carlos E.Piedrafita