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Neutral $B$-meson oscillations

Physics Asked on May 16, 2021

I would have a question about an Equation in Mark Thomson’s book "Modern Particle Physics".

On page 397, Eq. (14.62), he arrives at

$$vert Bleft( tright)rangle = frac{1}{2}left[ theta_{+}vert B^{0}rangle + xitheta_{-}vertbar{B}^{0}rangleright].$$
He then writes in Eq. (14.65) that $$Pleft( B_{t = 0}^{0}rightarrow B^{0}right) = leftvert leftlangle Bleft( tright) vert B^{0} rightrangle rightvert^2 = frac{1}{4}e^{-Gamma t}left| theta_{+}right|^2.$$

Unfortunately, it is unclear to me how the factor $e^{-Gamma t}$ enters, isn’t $leftlangle B^{0}vert B^{0}rightrangle = 1$? Thank you.

Edit: $theta_{+}$ is given by $2e^{-Gamma t/2}e^{-iMt}cosfrac{Delta m_d t}{2}$.

One Answer

The product is between the time evolved ket $|B(t)rangle$ and the flavour eigenstate $|B^0rangle$. You didn't give enough information about the specific form of the coefficients $theta_pm$ but I can guess that they depend on time by a exponentially suppressing factor $e^{-Gamma t/2}$ so, even given the fact that $langle B^0|B^0rangle = 1$, there still remain the real time dependence of the coefficients.

Correct answer by Davide Morgante on May 16, 2021

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