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LarryS
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I believe that conservation laws, like for energy and momentum, are obeyed during the particle decay process, e.g. the total energy of the new output particles is equal to the energy of the one input particle. But is that relationship subject to quantum fuzziness? Suppose we, somehow, prepare a coherent source of freely traveling massive particles. Then after some time, these particles each decay into two other particles. Is this decay process a quantum measurement event - does the wave function of the input particle collapse so that we are dealing with actual precise values of say energy when that energy is transferred to the two output particles?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.