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In a hard vacuum, is the electron and the neutrino emitted in a beta decay entangled?
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In a hard vacuum, is the electron and the neutrino emitted in a beta decay entangled?

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The only reason for the hard vacuum is to allow the electron time before it interacts with other matter. I don't see any practical experiment to answer the question. Neutrinos are too difficult to detect. Assuming the spins are entangled, how does one detect the spin of a neutrino?
 
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In a hard vacuum, is the electron and the neutrino emitted in a beta decay entangled?
You are thinking about the decay of an isolated neutron? Beta decay of a neutron in an atomic nucleus brings in a bunch of other complications, but either way there’s also a daughter proton to consider.

All of the daughter particles are entangled on energy, momentum, and angular momentum. They do not have a definite value for any of these properties until an interaction with something else (for example, a measurement) breaks the entanglement and the wave function collapses to a state in which the values are consistent with the conservation laws for these properties.
I don't see any practical experiment to answer the question. Neutrinos are too difficult to detect. Assuming the spins are entangled, how does one detect the spin of a neutrino?
not easily. https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.109.1015 for example
 
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rjhoward12447 said:
TL;DR Summary: In a hard vacuum, is the electron and the neutrino emitted in a beta decay entangled?

This is a question.

In a hard vacuum, is the electron and the neutrino emitted in a beta decay entangled?

I searched the web. The question does not seem to appear there.

The only reason for the hard vacuum is to allow the electron time before it interacts with other matter. I don't see any practical experiment to answer the question. Neutrinos are too difficult to detect. Assuming the spins are entangled, how does one detect the spin of a neutrino?
My rule of thumb is "if it can be entangled, it will be."
 
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My rule of thumb is "if it can be entangled, it will be."
Murphy's Law of Entanglement?
 
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Depending on the type of beta decay, the electron and neutrino spins will be entangled.
 
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