Oxford physicists help uncover 'spooky' quantum effect in the Large Hadron Collider

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Published: 2026-09-15T12:07:00Z
Category: science
Source: University of Oxford

Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, with contributions from the University of Oxford, have found strong evidence of quantum entanglement between a pair of Z bosons produced in the decay of a Higgs boson. This discovery, published in Physical Review Letters, confirms that this "spooky action at a distance" occurs even among heavy and short-lived particles created in high-energy collisions.

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