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- Title
Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle with the VIP-2 Experiment.
- Authors
Napolitano, Fabrizio; Bartalucci, Sergio; Bertolucci, Sergio; Bazzi, Massimiliano; Bragadireanu, Mario; Capoccia, Cesidio; Cargnelli, Michael; Clozza, Alberto; De Paolis, Luca; Del Grande, Raffaele; Fiorini, Carlo; Guaraldo, Carlo; Iliescu, Mihail; Laubenstein, Matthias; Marton, Johann; Miliucci, Marco; Milotti, Edoardo; Nola, Federico; Piscicchia, Kristian; Porcelli, Alessio
- Abstract
Violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP), albeit small, could be motivated by physics beyond the Standard Model, ranging from violation of Lorentz invariance to extra space dimensions. This scenario can be experimentally constrained through dedicated, state-of-the-art X-ray spectroscopy, searching for a forbidden atomic transition from the L shell to the K shell already occupied by two electrons. The VIP-2 Experiment located at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratories of INFN (Italy) tests PEP violations by introducing new electrons via a direct current in a copper conductor, measuring the X-ray energies through a silicon drift detector. Bayesian and frequentist analyses of approximately six months of data taken with the fully operational setup is presented, setting the strongest limit to date on the PEP violation shown by the VIP collaboration. The upper bound on PEP violation are placed at 90% CL β 2 / 2 ≤ 6.8 × 10 − 42 with the Bayesian approach, and β 2 / 2 ≤ 7.1 × 10 − 42 with the frequentist CLs technique.
- Subjects
ATOMIC transitions; STANDARD model (Nuclear physics); LORENTZ invariance; SILICON detectors; X-ray spectroscopy; COPPER powder
- Publication
Symmetry (20738994), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 5, p893
- ISSN
2073-8994
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/sym14050893