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arxiv: 2501.11205 · v2 · submitted 2025-01-20 · ✦ hep-ex

Tests of CP symmetry in entangled hyperon anti-hyperon pairs at BESIII

Wenjing Zheng , Andrzej Kupsc , Simone Pacetti , Francesco Rosini , Nora Salone , Xiongfei Wang , Shuang-shi Fang This is my paper

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BESIII uses entangled hyperon pairs from charmonium decays to test CP symmetry with increasing precision but remains short of Standard Model sensitivity.

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The paper reviews recent results from the BESIII experiment on testing CP symmetry in the decays of entangled hyperon and anti-hyperon pairs produced in charmonium decays. It establishes that high-statistics data from J/psi and psi(3686) resonances have enabled new measurements of CP asymmetries in channels like Lambda bar Lambda and Xi bar Xi, showing progress over previous experiments. However, the achieved sensitivities are not yet sufficient to probe the small CP-violating effects expected in the Standard Model, motivating further experimental efforts. A sympathetic reader would care because such tests can reveal whether the Standard Model fully accounts for CP violation in the baryon sector or if new physics is required.

Core claim

Decays of charmonium into hyperon and antihyperon pairs provide a pristine laboratory for exploring hyperon properties and conducting tests of fundamental symmetries. Recent findings at BESIII have made significant progress in precise tests of CP symmetry using entangled hyperon-antihyperon pairs, including Lambda bar Lambda, Sigma bar Sigma, Xi bar Xi and Lambda bar Sigma, selected from the high statistics of J/psi and psi(3686) events produced in e+e- annihilations. These recent findings have sparked renewed interest in both theoretical and experimental aspects of hyperon physics, but there is still much room for improvement to reach the Standard Model expectations. Prospects for future CP

What carries the argument

Entangled hyperon-antihyperon pairs produced in charmonium decays at BESIII, used to extract polarization and decay parameters for CP asymmetry measurements.

If this is right

  • New upper limits have been placed on CP-violating asymmetries in multiple hyperon decay channels.
  • The measurements have generated renewed theoretical and experimental interest in hyperon properties.
  • Next-generation experiments will be required to reach the small CP effects predicted by the Standard Model.
  • The entangled production method helps control certain systematic effects in asymmetry extractions.

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  • Reaching Standard Model sensitivity could either confirm the absence of additional CP violation in baryons or reveal new physics contributions.
  • The technique may generalize to other discrete symmetry tests where entanglement reduces certain background uncertainties.
  • Comparison with meson-sector CP results could highlight whether baryon and meson violations share a common origin.

Load-bearing premise

The selected high-statistics samples from J/psi and psi(3686) events provide sufficiently clean entangled pairs with controllable systematic uncertainties from detector response and background subtraction for the reported CP asymmetry limits.

What would settle it

An independent reanalysis of the same BESIII datasets that yields substantially different values for the reported CP asymmetry limits would show the current progress claims rest on uncontrolled systematics.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2501.11205 by Andrzej Kupsc, Francesco Rosini, Nora Salone, Shuang-shi Fang, Simone Pacetti, Wenjing Zheng, Xiongfei Wang.

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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3: Comparison of the experimental measurements achieved at BESIII and theoretical expectations. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Decays of charmonium into hyperon and antihyperon pairs provide a pristine laboratory for exploring hyperon properties, such as their polarization and decay parameters, and for conducting tests of fundamental symmetries. This brief review highlights the significant progress made in precise tests of CP symmetry at BESIII using entangled hyperon-antihyperon pairs, including $\Lambda\bar{\Lambda}$, $\Sigma\bar{\Sigma}$, $\Xi\bar{\Xi}$ and $\Lambda\bar{\Sigma}$, selected from the high statistics of $J/\psi$ and $\psi(3686)$ events produced in $e^+e^-$ annihilations. These recent findings have sparked renewed interest in both theoretical and experimental aspects of hyperon physics, but there is still much room for improvement to reach the Standard Model expectations. To address this challenge, the prospects for future investigations on CP asymmetry at next-generation experiments are discussed.

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Referee Report

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Summary. This manuscript is a brief review summarizing recent BESIII experimental results on CP symmetry tests using entangled hyperon-antihyperon pairs (ΛΛbar, ΣΣbar, ΞΞbar, and ΛΣbar) selected from high-statistics J/ψ and ψ(3686) samples produced in e+e- collisions. It highlights progress in measuring CP asymmetries and decay parameters while noting that current limits remain far from Standard Model expectations, and outlines prospects for future experiments.

Significance. As a concise synthesis of published BESIII measurements, the review consolidates key findings in hyperon CP violation and may help orient researchers to the current experimental status and open questions in this area. Its value lies in providing an accessible overview rather than new data or derivations.

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  1. The prospects section would benefit from explicit quantitative projections (e.g., expected sensitivity improvements at proposed facilities) to strengthen the forward-looking discussion.

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our manuscript as a concise synthesis of BESIII results on CP symmetry tests with hyperon pairs and for the recommendation to accept. No major comments were provided in the report.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: review summarizes external experimental results only

full rationale

The manuscript is explicitly a brief review of previously published BESIII measurements on CP asymmetries in hyperon-antihyperon pairs from J/psi and psi(3686) decays. No derivations, equations, fits, predictions, or new modeling steps are presented. All central claims rest on the accuracy of cited external experimental papers rather than any internal reduction to self-defined inputs or self-citations. No load-bearing self-citation chains, ansatze, or uniqueness theorems appear. This is the standard case of a self-contained summary with independent external support.

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As a review paper, no new free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced by the authors; all content summarizes prior experimental work.

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