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High Precision Test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for Electrons

Piscicchia, Kristian; Amirkhani, Aidin; Bartalucci, Sergio; Bertolucci, Sergio; Bazzi, Massimiliano; Bragadireanu, Mario; Cargnelli, Michael; Clozza, Alberto; Curceanu, Catalina; Del Grande, Raffaele; De Paolis, Luca; Egger, Jean-Pierre; Fiorini, Carlo; Guaraldo, Carlo; Iliescu, Mihail; Laubenstein, Matthias; Marton, Johann; Miliucci, Marco; Milotti, Edoardo; Pichler, Andreas; Pietreanu, Dorel; Scordo, Alessandro; Shi, Hexi; Sirghi, Diana Laura; Sirghi, Florin; Sperandio, Laura; Vazquez Doce, Oton; Zmeskal, Johann

The VIP-2 experiment aims to perform high precision tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons. The method consists in circulating a continuous current in a copper strip, searching for the X radiation emission due to a prohibited transition (from the 2p level to the 1s level of copper when this is already occupied by two electrons). VIP already set the best limit on the PEP violation probability for electrons \(\frac{1}{2} \beta^2 < 4.7 \times 10^{-29}\), the goal of the upgraded VIP-2 (VIolation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle-2) experiment is to improve this result of two orders of magnitude at least. The experimental apparatus and the results of the analysis of a first set of collected data will be presented.

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