24–26 May 2017
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
Europe/Rome timezone

Can a Pauli-forbidden atomic transition happen?

25 May 2017, 15:15
40m
Aula Seminari (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Aula Seminari

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati

Speaker

Dr Johann Marton (Stefan Meyer Institute)

Description

The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) and its connection to the spin-statistics theorem is a empirically very well proved in fermionic systems. However, from theoretical considerations there are speculations about possible violations in the lepton sector, i.e. for neutrinos, which would have severe consequences for cosmology. In an experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS-INFN) we are searching for the limit of the validity of PEP for leptons by searching PEP-forbidden electron transitions in a high-sensitivity experiment VIP2. The underlying concept of this experiment, preliminary results and an outlook for the next steps will be given.

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