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Report number	arXiv:1302.7218
Title	Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle for Electrons
Related title	Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle for Electrons
Author(s)	Marton, J. (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Bartalucci, S. (INFN, Italy) ; Bertolucci, S. (CERN) ; Berucci, C. (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys. ; INFN, Italy) ; Bragadireanu, M. (INFN, Italy ; Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Cargnelli, M. (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Curceanu Petrascu, C. (INFN, Italy ; Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Di Matteo, S. (Rennes U.) ; Egger, J.-P. (Neuchatel U.) ; Guaraldo, C. (INFN, Italy) ; Iliescu, M. (INFN, Italy) ; Ishiwatari, T. (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Laubenstein, M. (Gran Sasso) ; Milotti, E. (Trieste U. ; INFN, Trieste) ; Pietreanu, D. (INFN, Italy) ; Piscicchia, K. (INFN, Italy) ; Ponta, T. (INFN, Italy ; Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Romero Vidal, A. (INFN, Italy) ; Scordo, A. (INFN, Italy) ; Sirghi, D.L. (INFN, Italy ; Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Sirghi, F. (INFN, Italy ; Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Sperandio, L. (INFN, Italy) ; Vazquez Doce, O. (INFN, Italy ; Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Widmann, E. (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Zmeskal, J. (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.)
Publication	2013-07-24
Imprint	01 Mar 2013
Number of pages	7
Note	Comments: Proceedings DISCRETE 2012-Third Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Lisbon, December 3-7, 2012 Proceedings DISCRETE 2012-Third Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Lisbon, December 3-7, 2012
In:	J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 447 (2013) 012070
In:	3rd Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Lisbon, Portugal, 3 - 7 Dec 2012, pp.012070
DOI	10.1088/1742-6596/447/1/012070
Subject category	Nuclear Physics - Experiment
Abstract	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. Numerous experiments were performed to search for tiny violation of this rule in various systems. The experiment VIP at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory is searching for possible small violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons leading to forbidden X-ray transitions in copper atoms. VIP is aiming at a test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons with high accuracy, down to the level of 10$^{-29}$ - 10$^{-30}$, thus improving the previous limit by 3-4 orders of magnitude. The experimental method, results obtained so far and new developments within VIP2 (follow-up experiment at Gran Sasso, in preparation) to further increase the precision by 2 orders of magnitude will be presented.
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