1. Test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle in the VIP-2 Underground Experiment
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Mario Bragadireanu, Diana Sirghi, Massimiliano Bazzi, Florin Sirghi, Johann Zmeskal, Marco Miliucci, Luca De Paolis, Sergio Di Matteo, C. Guaraldo, Edoardo Milotti, Oton Vazquez Doce, Kristian Piscicchia, Matthias Laubenstein, Dorel Pietreanu, Alberto Clozza, Eberhard Widmann, Laura Sperandio, Alessandro Scordo, M. Iliescu, Sergio Bertolucci, Johann Marton, Michael Cargnelli, A. Pichler, J. P. Egger, Hexi Shi, Sergio Bartalucci, Catalina Curceanu, Carolina Berucci, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) [P25529-N20], EU COST Action [CA15220], Centro Fermi (' Problemi aperti nella meccania quantistica' project), John Templeton Foundation [58158], Curceanu, Catalina, Shi, Hexi, Bartalucci, Sergio, Bertolucci, Sergio, Bazzi, Massimiliano, Berucci, Carolina, Bragadireanu, Mario, Cargnelli, Michael, Clozza, Alberto, De Paolis, Luca, Di Matteo, Sergio, Egger, Jean Pierre, Guaraldo, Carlo, Iliescu, Mihail, Marton, Johann, Laubenstein, Matthia, Milotti, Edoardo, Miliucci, Marco, Pichler, Andrea, Pietreanu, Dorel, Piscicchia, Kristian, Scordo, Alessandro, Sirghi, Diana, Sirghi, Florin, Sperandio, Laura, Vazquez Doce, Oton, Widmann, Eberhard, Zmeskal, Johann, and Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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quantum foundation ,Particle physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Electron ,x-ray spectroscopy ,01 natural sciences ,Pauli exclusion principle ,symbols.namesake ,silicon drift detector ,0103 physical sciences ,Limit (mathematics) ,010306 general physics ,Quantum ,Physics ,[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,Quantum Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,quantum foundations ,X-ray spectroscopy ,underground experiment ,symbols ,Orbit (control theory) ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ,Ground state ,pauli exclusion principle - Abstract
The validity of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, a building block of Quantum Mechanics, is tested for electrons. The VIP (VIolation of Pauli exclusion principle) and its follow-up VIP-2 experiments at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso search for x-rays from copper atomic transition that are prohibited by the Pauli Exclusion Principle. The candidate events, if they exist, originate from the transition of a $2p$ orbit electron to the ground state which is already occupied by two electrons. The present limit on the probability for Pauli Exclusion Principle violation for electrons set by the VIP experiment is 4.7 $\times$ 10 $^{-29}$. We report a first result from the VIP-2 experiment improving on the VIP limit, that solidifies the final goal to achieve a two order of magnitude gain in the long run., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to journal Entropy special issue: "Quantum Information and Foundations", 2017
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- 2017