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BESIII experiment uses antimatter entanglement to measure rare lambda hyperon decay

The BESIII Collaboration measured the decay of lambda hyperons, in which a strange quark converts into an up quark, by exploiting quantum entanglement between the particle and its antimatter counterpart to 'tag' the event. This technique allowed them to determine a decay parameter that had eluded precise measurement for 35 years, and their result matches predictions from established physics theory.

Study details form factors shaping baryon semileptonic decay measurements

Researchers outline how six transition form factors govern the semileptonic weak decay of hyperons, focusing on the Lambda baryon's decay into a proton, electron and antineutrino. They show that because scalar and pseudoscalar form factors are suppressed by lepton-to-hyperon mass ratios, the electron-antineutrino channel effectively depends on just four form factors and the CKM parameter Vus, allowing a simplified branching ratio formula.