In proton-neutron scattering, the inelastic charge-exchange channel produces more entanglement entropy in transverse momentum than the elastic channel, according to a new S-matrix derivation tied to measured cross sections.
The Entanglement of Elastic and Inelastic Scattering
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The entanglement properties of systems in which elastic and inelastic reactions occur in projectile-target interactions is studied. A new measure of entanglement, the scattering entropy, based on the unitarity of the $S-$matrix (probability conservation), is suggested. Using simple models for both low- and high-energy interactions, the amount of entanglement is found to track with the strength of the inelastic interaction. The familiar example of the classical ``black disk", total absorption, model is found to correspond to maximum entanglement. An analysis of high-energy $pp$ scattering data shows that entanglement is near maximum for lab energies greater than about 1 GeV, showing that the total absorption model is a reasonable starting point for understanding the data.
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Entanglement in Elastic and Inelastic Two-particle Scatterings at High Energy
In proton-neutron scattering, the inelastic charge-exchange channel produces more entanglement entropy in transverse momentum than the elastic channel, according to a new S-matrix derivation tied to measured cross sections.