%0 Generic %1 LlanesEstrada2017Shannon %A Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J. %A Millán, Pedro C. %A Riojano, Ana P. %A Sánchez Garc\'ıa, Esteban M. %A Ángeles Garc\'ıa Ferrero, %D 2017 %K weird %T Shannon entropy and hadronic decays %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01286 %X 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 \$S(i) =-\sum\_fBR\_(if)BR\_(if)\$ that takes as input the experimental branching ratios (BR) of the decay distribution of particle i. 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.

@misc{LlanesEstrada2017Shannon, abstract = {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 \$S(i) =-\sum\_{f}BR\_{(i\longrightarrow f)}\log BR\_{(i\longrightarrow f)}\$ that takes as input the experimental branching ratios (BR) of the decay distribution of particle i. 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.}, added-at = {2019-02-23T22:09:48.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J. and Mill\'{a}n, Pedro C. and Riojano, Ana P. and S\'{a}nchez Garc\'{\i}a, Esteban M. and \'{A}ngeles Garc\'{\i}a Ferrero}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2cd603447ea666eea0adcbadc94438911/cmcneile}, citeulike-article-id = {14445170}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01286}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.01286}, day = 3, eprint = {1710.01286}, interhash = {b3c003fd5d17624584d2d13f5808b68f}, intrahash = {cd603447ea666eea0adcbadc94438911}, keywords = {weird}, month = oct, posted-at = {2017-10-04 10:42:55}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-02-23T22:15:27.000+0100}, title = {{Shannon entropy and hadronic decays}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01286}, year = 2017 }