1. High Sensitivity Pauli Exclusion Principle Tests by the VIP Experiment: Status and Perspectives.
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PISCICCHIA, K., BARTALUCCI, S., BERTOLUCCI, S., BAZZI, M., BORGHI, G., BRAGADIREANU, M., CAPOCCIA, C., CARGNELLI, M., CLOZZA, A., DEL GRANDE, R., DE PAOLIS, L., FIORINI, C., GUARALDO, C., ILIESCU, M., LAUBENSTEINI, M., MARTON, J., MILIUCCI, M., MILOTTI, E., NAPOLITANO, F., and PORCELLI, A.
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GOVERNMENT laboratories , *ELECTRONS , *X-ray spectroscopy , *ATOMIC number - Abstract
The VIP Collaboration is performing high sensitivity tests of the Pauli exclusion principle for electrons in the extremely-low cosmic background environment of the Gran Sasso underground National Laboratory of INFN. In its open-systems configuration, the experiment checks the continuously renewed symmetry state of the conductive target, constantly supplied with electrons through a direct current. Consequently, VIP is operating the sole experiment challenging the spin-statistics connection in compliance with the Messiah-Greenberg superselection rule. The strongest bounds set by the VIP-2 experiment on the Pauli exclusion principle violation probability, by exploiting a copper target, will be reviewed. The future VIP-3 experiment will be presented, the aim of which is to map the Pauli exclusion principle violation probability as a function of the atomic number of the target under test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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