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Testing Bell inequalities at the LHC with top-quark pairs

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arxiv 2102.11883 v2 pith:WV4QAYS6 submitted 2021-02-23 hep-ph hep-exquant-ph

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Entanglement between the spins of top-quark pairs produced at a collider can be used to test a (generalized) Bell inequality at energies never explored so far. We show how the measurement of a single observable can provide a test of the violation of the Bell inequality at the 98% CL with the data already collected at the Large Hadron Collider and at the 99.99% CL with the higher luminosity of the next run.

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