We are interested in the entanglement entropy of the final state of two particles in an elastic scattering. One can expect that the entanglement is yielded by the interaction between the particles. Within an S-matrix theory, by using the partial wave expansion of the S-matrix elements for two-particle states, we calculate a density matrix in a high energy elastic scattering, and obtain the entanglement entropy formula, which is described by physical observables. In the derivation of this formula, there appear divergences due to the infinite volume of two-particle Hilbert space. In order to avoid such divergences, we suggest a volume-regularization. Then we concretely evaluate the entanglement entropy for proton-proton scattering by using experimental data.
Entanglement of the two scattered particles is expected to occur in elastic collisions, even at high energy where they are in competition with inelastic ones. We study how to evaluate quantitatively the corresponding entanglement entropy
SEE. For this sake, we regularize the divergences occurring in the formal derivation of
SEE using a regularization procedure acting on the two-particle Hilbert space of final states. A quantitative application is performed in proton-proton collisions at collider energies, comparing the results of
SEE with two different cutoffs and with a volume-regularization obtained by a prescription fixing the finite two-body Hilbert space volume. A significant entanglement is found which persists even at the highest available energies.
We study the entanglement entropy between the two outgoing particles in an elastic scattering process. It is formulated within an S-matrix formalism using the partial wave expansion of two-body states, which plays a significant role in our computation. As a result, we obtain a novel formula that expresses the entanglement entropy in a high energy scattering by the use of physical observables, namely the elastic and total cross sections and a physical bound on the impact parameter range, related to the elastic differential cross-section.