A high sensitivity test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons

Journal Article · Mon Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3578731· OSTI ID:21511515

Marton, J; Cargnelli, M; Ishiwatari, T; Widmann, E; Zmeskal, J ^[1]; Bartalucci, S; Cuaraldo, C; Iliescu, M; Pietreanu, D; Vidal, A Romero; Sperandio, L; Doce, O Vazquez ^[2]; Bertolucci, S ^[3]; Bragadireanu, M; Curceanu, C; Sirghi, D L; Sirghi, F ^[2]; Di Matteo, S ^[4]; Egger, J -P ^[5]; Laubenstein, E ^[6]

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1. Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna (Austria)
2. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, CP 13, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044, Frascati (Roma) (Italy)
3. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
4. Institut de Physique UMRCNRS-UR1 6251, Universite de Rennes1, F-35042 Rennes (France)
5. Institut de Physique, Universite de Neuchatel, 1 rue A.-L. Berguet, 2000 Neuchatel (Switzerland)
6. Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, S.S. 17/bis, 67010 Assergi (Italy)

One of the fundamental rules of nature and a pillar in the foundation of quantum theory and thus of modern physics is represented by the Pauli Exclusion Principle. We know that this principle is extremely well fulfilled due to many observations like the order of the elements and the stability of matter. Numerous experiments were performed to search for tiny violation of this rule in various systems. The VIP experiment at Gran Sasso underground laboratory is testing the validity of this principle for electrons with very high precision (order of 10{sup -30}). The layout of the present experiment, results obtained so far and new ideas to further increase the precision will be presented.

• OSTI ID: 21511515
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1327, Issue 1; Conference: International conference on advances in quantum theory, Vaexjoe (Sweden), 14-17 Jun 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3578731; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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