Speaker
Dr
Fabrizio Napolitano
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
Description
The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) is one of the main
cornerstones of the Quantum Theory. Violation of the PEP, albeit small, could be
motivated by physics beyond the Standard Model which entail extra space
dimensions, violation of the Lorentz invariance, non-commutative space-time.
These scenarios can be experimentally constrained with stat-of-the-art X-ray
spectroscopy, searching for forbidden transition in atomic systems. I shall present
the results of the VIP-2 experiment at LNGS searching for PEP violations; the
impact of this research in relation to quantum gravity models is also discussed.
Finally, the experimental testes of quantum wave-function collapse models done at
LNGS will also be outlined.
Primary author
Dr
Fabrizio Napolitano
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
