How much information is added to the Review of Particle Physics when a new decay branching ratio of a hadron is measured and reported? This is quantifiable by Shannon’s information entropy.
It may be used at two levels, against the distribution of decay-channel probabilities, or against the distribution of individual quantum-state probabilities (integrating the phase space of those states provides the former). We illustrate the concept with some examples.
Volume 310 -
XVII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure (Hadron2017) -
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Shannon entropy and hadron decays
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February 19, 2018
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.310.0245
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