2001/03/22 by F. Benatti, R. Floreanini, R. Romano · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-th #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(01)00143-2
published as Nucl.Phys.B602:541-571,2001 · 33 pages, plain-TeX, no figures
arxiv created 2001/03/22 · arxiv updated 2014/11/17
The propagation and decay of neutral B-mesons can be described in terms of quantum dynamical semigroups; they provide generalized time-evolutions that take into account possible non-standard effects leading to loss of phase coherence and dissipation. These effects can be fully parametrized in terms of six phenomenological constants. A detailed analysis of selected B-meson decays shows that present and future dedicated experiments, both at colliders and B-factories, will be able to put stringent bounds on these non-standard parameters.