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Bell tests for collider decay processes
Abstract
We propose Bell tests for collider decays using independently sampled analysis axes as settings and detector regions to assign binary or null outcomes. We show that a Bell violation requires postselection, opening a loophole. However, under measurement independence and operational equivalence of acceptance events across settings, any local model exploiting the loophole must be nonclassical in the sense of measurement contextuality. We derive a Bell inequality violated by singlet correlations when the effective spin-analyzing powers are sufficiently high. Its violation then witnesses Bell nonlocality or measurement contextuality.
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BibTeX
@misc{fucci2026bell,
title = {{Bell tests for collider decay processes}},
author = {Danilo M. Fucci and Alexandre C. Orthey Jr. and Alan J. Barr and Christopher G. Timpson},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.09294},
eprint = {2609.09294},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09294},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Bell tests for collider decay processes
AU - Danilo M. Fucci
AU - Alexandre C. Orthey Jr.
AU - Alan J. Barr
AU - Christopher G. Timpson
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.09294
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09294
AB - We propose Bell tests for collider decays using independently sampled analysis axes as settings and detector regions to assign binary or null outcomes. We show that a Bell violation requires postselection, opening a loophole. However, under measurement independence and operational equivalence of acceptance events across settings, any local model exploiting the loophole must be nonclassical in the sense of measurement contextuality. We derive a Bell inequality violated by singlet correlations when the effective spin-analyzing powers are sufficiently high. Its violation then witnesses Bell nonlocality or measurement contextuality.
ER -