Title: The photon identification loophole in EPRB experiments: computer models with single-wing selection,
Abstract: Recent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments [M. Giustina et al. Phys.
Rev. Lett. 115, 250401 (2015); L. K. Shalm et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250402
(2015)] that claim to be loophole free are scrutinized and are shown to suffer
a photon identification loophole. The combination of a digital computer and
discrete-event simulation is used to construct a minimal but faithful model of
the most perfected realization of these laboratory experiments. In contrast to
prior simulations, all photon selections are strictly made, as they are in the
actual experiments, at the local station and no other "post-selection" is
involved. The simulation results demonstrate that a manifestly non-quantum
model that identifies photons in the same local manner as in these experiments
can produce correlations that are in excellent agreement with those of the
quantum theoretical description of the corresponding thought experiment, in
conflict with Bell's theorem. The failure of Bell's theorem is possible because
of our recognition of the photon identification loophole. Such identification
measurement-procedures are necessarily included in all actual experiments but
are not included in the theory of Bell and his followers.