Neutral-kaon projection interference asymmetry

ID: neutral-kaon-projection-interference-asymmetry

In the exchange-positive CP convention for neutral kaon mixing, a coherent source with decay amplitudes and for and has projected amplitudes and . For equal phase space, their decay-rate asymmetry is , . Expanding the squared moduli proves the identity. Knowledge of alone cannot fix the asymmetry: gives zero, whereas gives constructive interference in the symmetric channel.

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