Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation Seminar
Challenging the Pauli Exclusion Principle by Hunting “Impossible” Atoms in the Cosmic Silence
We are experimentally investigating possible violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principle in the cosmic silence of the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy, by hunting "impossible" atomic transitions. I shall present our recent results and method to hunt for small violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) for electrons through the search for PEP "prohibited" X-ray transitions in copper and lead targets within the VIP2 experiment, and discuss possible implications for theories beyond the Standard Model and our future plans.