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- Title
BEYOND QUANTUM MECHANICS? HUNTING THE 'IMPOSSIBLE' ATOMS -- PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE VIOLATION AND SPONTANEOUS COLLAPSE OF THE WAVE FUNCTION AT TEST.
- Authors
PISCICCHIA, K.; CURCEANU, C.; BARTALUCCI, S.; BASSIC, A.; BERTOLUCCI, S.; BERUCCI, C.; BRAGADIREANU, A. M.; CARGNELLI, M.; CLOZZA, A.; DE PAOLIS, L.; DI MATTEO, S.; DONADI, S.; D'UFFIZI, A.; EGGER, J.-P.; GUARALDO, C.; ILIESCU, M.; ISHIWATARI, T.; LAUBENSTEINI, M.; MARTONE, J.; MILOTTI, E.
- Abstract
The development of mathematically complete and consistent models solving the so-called "measurement problem", strongly renewed the interest of the scientific community for the foundations of quantum mechanics, among these the Dynamical Reduction Models posses the unique characteristic to be experimentally testable. In the first part of the paper, an upper limit on the reduction rate parameter of such models will be obtained, based on the analysis of the X-ray spectrum emitted by an isolated slab of germanium and measured by the IGEX experiment. The second part of the paper is devoted to present the results of the VIP (Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle) experiment and to describe its recent upgrade. The VIP experiment established a limit on the probability that the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) is violated by electrons, using the very clean method of searching for PEP forbidden atomic transitions in copper.
- Subjects
QUANTUM mechanics; PAULI exclusion principle; WAVE functions; STANDARD model (Nuclear physics); PHYSICS experiments
- Publication
Acta Physica Polonica B, 2015, Vol 46, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
0587-4254
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5506/APhysPolB.46.147