Bernabéu José, Botella Francisco J, Mavromatos Nick E, Nebot Miguel
1Departament de Física Teòrica, IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, 46100 Burjassot, Spain.
2Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS UK.
Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2017;77(12):865. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5432-2. Epub 2017 Dec 13.
In the presence of quantum-gravity fluctuations (space-time foam), the CPT operator may be ill-defined. Its perturbative treatment leads to a modification of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation of the neutral meson system by adding an entanglement-weakening term of the wrong exchange symmetry, the -effect. In the current paper we identify how to probe the complex in the entangled -system using the flavour ()-CP() eigenstate decay channels: the connection between the intensities for the two time-ordered decays (, ) and (, ) is lost. Appropriate observables are constructed allowing independent experimental determinations of Re( ) and Im( ), disentangled from CPT violation in the evolution Hamiltonian Re( ) and Im( ). tensions for both Re( ) and Im( ) are shown to be uncorrelated.