The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) is a basic principle of Quantum Mechanics, and its validity has never been seriously challenged. However, given its importance, it is very important to check it as thoroughly as possible. Here we describe the VIP (Violation of PEP) experiment, an improved version of the Ramberg and Snow experiment (Ramberg and Snow, Phys. Lett. B238 (1990) 438); VIP shall be performed at the Gran Sasso underground laboratories, and aims to test the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons with unprecedented accuracy, down to 2β2∼10−30
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0508167,
title = {The VIP Experiment},
author = {S. Bartalucci and S. Bertolucci and M. Bragadireanu and C. Bucci and M. Cargnelli and M. Catitti and C. Curceanu and S. Di Matteo and J. -P. Egger and N. Ferrari and H. Fuhrmann and C. Guaraldo and M. Iliescu and T. Ishiwatari and M. Laubenstein and J. Marton and E. Milotti and D. Pietreanu and T. Ponta and D. Sirghi and F. Sirghi and L. Sperandio and E. Widmann and J. Zmeskal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0508167},
year = {2015}
}
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7 pages, 5 figures, PDF only, presented by Edoardo Milotti to the conference "Quantum Theory: reconsideration of foundations-3", Vaxjo (Sweden), June, 6-11 2005