Abstract
In this paper we discuss the possibility of classicality experimental verification at \(B\)-factories. We show that for three moments of time it is possible to observe violations of Wigner’s inequalities, even with the 50% fraction of background processes.
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N.V. Nikitin thanks the Russian Science Foundation, grant N22-22-00297, “Rare Four-Lepton Decays of Heavy Mesons in the Standard Model and Its Extensions,” for financial support.
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Efimova, A.Y., Nikitin, N.V. Classicality Test in Neutral \(B_{s}^{0}{\kern 1pt} \bar {B}_{s}^{0}\) Pairs. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 20, 376–380 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477123030263
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477123030263