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No Lambda oscillations

J. Lowe, B. Bassalleck, H. Burkhardt, A. Rusek, G. J. Stephenson, T. Goldman

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9605234

Abstract

We examine a recently published calculation which predicts an oscillatory behaviour for the decay of Lambdas produced together with a neutral kaon, and proposes a new expression for the wavelength of kaon strangeness oscillations. We modify the calculation by imposing the requirement that the interference of the KL and KS components of the kaon wave function occurs at a specific space-time point. With this requirement, the unusual results predicted vanish, and the conventional results are recovered.

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