Conveners
Fundamental Physics: 1
- Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University)
Fundamental Physics: 2
- Simone Manti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Muonic atom spectroscopy is a well-established method to accurately determine the root-mean-square (RMS) radii of nuclear charge density distributions and has already delivered the most accurate results for very light (Z < 3) as well as heavier nuclei (Z > 10). However, a gap remains for muonic atoms from lithium to neon due to technological limitations in the relevant energy range (~20–200...
X-ray spectroscopy of kaonic atoms provides a unique tool for fundamental physics, enabling precision tests of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in strong electromagnetic fields and the exploration of the strong interaction at low energies with strangeness. In these exotic systems, the electromagnetic cascade of the kaon reveals both QED and strong-interaction effects in the innermost atomic...
Kaonic atoms spectroscopy provides essential observables for investigating low-energy strong interactions in systems with strangeness. I shall present an overview of the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration’s efforts in this field, with a particular focus on the development and first use of a novel Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CZT) detector system for studying intermediate-mass kaonic atoms.
This innovative...
The VIP experiment is pursuing experimental studies of Quantum Mechanics (QM) foundations, investigating models of dynamical wave function collapse and performing high sensitivity tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) for electrons.
Unification of QM and General Relativity is probably the main ambition of modern physics. Motivated by the awareness that space-time fluctuations would...
