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Search for Deeply Bound Kaonic Nuclear States with AMADEUS
We briefly report on the search for Deeply Bound Kaonic Nuclear States with
AMADEUS in the Sigma0 p channel following K- absorption on 12C and outline
future perspectives for this work
High sensitivity tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle with VIP2
The Pauli Exclusion Principle is one of the most fundamental rules of nature
and represents a pillar of modern physics. According to many observations the
Pauli Exclusion Principle must be extremely well fulfilled. Nevertheless,
numerous experimental investigations were performed to search for a small
violation of this principle. The VIP experiment at the Gran Sasso underground
laboratory searched for Pauli-forbidden X-ray transitions in copper atoms using
the Ramberg-Snow method and obtained the best limit so far. The follow-up
experiment VIP2 is designed to reach even higher sensitivity. It aims to
improve the limit by VIP by orders of magnitude. The experimental method,
comparison of different PEP tests based on different assumptions and the
developments for VIP2 are presented.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings DISCRETE2014 Conferenc
First measurement of the K−n →Λπ−non-resonant transition amplitude below threshold
We present the analysis of K−absorption processes on He4 leading to Λπ−final states, measured with the KLOE spectrometer at the DAΦNE e+e−collider and extract, for the first time, the modulus of the non-resonant K−n →Λπ−direct production amplitude about 33 MeV below the K‾N threshold. This analysis also allows to disentangle the K−nuclear absorption at-rest from the in-flight capture, for K−momenta of about 120 MeV. The data are interpreted with the help of a phenomenological model, and the modulus of the non-resonant K−n →Λπ−amplitude for K−absorption at-rest is found to be |AK−n→Λπ−|=(0.334±0.018stat−0.058+0.034syst)fm
Shedding New Light on Kaon-Nucleon/Nuclei Interaction and Its Astrophysical Implications with the AMADEUS Experiment at DAFNE
The AMADEUS experiment deals with the investigation of the low-energy
kaon-nuclei hadronic interaction at the DA{\Phi}NE collider at LNF-INFN, which
is fundamental to respond longstanding questions in the non-perturbative QCD
strangeness sector. The antikaon-nucleon potential is investigated searching
for signals from possible bound kaonic clusters, which would open the
possibility for the formation of cold dense baryonic matter. The confirmation
of this scenario may imply a fundamental role of strangeness in astrophysics.
AMADEUS step 0 consisted in the reanalysis of 2004/2005 KLOE dataset,
exploiting K- absorptions in H, 4He, 9Be and 12C in the setup materials. In
this paper, together with a review on the multi-nucleon K- absorption and the
particle identification procedure, the first results on the {\Sigma}0-p channel
will be presented including a statistical analysis on the possible accomodation
of a deeply bound stateComment: 6 pages, 2 figure, 1 table, HADRON 2015 conferenc
Searches for the Violation of Pauli Exclusion Principle at LNGS in VIP(-2) experiment
The VIP (Violation of Pauli exclusion principle) experiment and its follow-up
experiment VIP-2 at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) search for
X-rays from Cu atomic states that are prohibited by the Pauli Exclusion
Principle (PEP). The candidate events, if they exist, will originate from the
transition of a orbit electron to the ground state which is already
occupied by two electrons. The present limit on the probability for PEP
violation for electron is 4.7 set by the VIP experiment. With
upgraded detectors for high precision X-ray spectroscopy, the VIP-2 experiment
will improve the sensitivity by two orders of magnitude.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Conference proceedings for oral
presentation at TAUP 2015, Torin
Beyond quantum mechanics? Hunting the 'impossible' atoms (Pauli Exclusion Principle violation and spontaneous collapse of the wave function at test)
The development of mathematically complete and consistent models solving the
so-called "measurement problem", strongly renewed the interest of the
scientific community for the foundations of quantum mechanics, among these the
Dynamical Reduction Models posses the unique characteristic to be
experimentally testable. In the first part of the paper an upper limit on the
reduction rate parameter of such models will be obtained, based on the analysis
of the X-ray spectrum emitted by an isolated slab of germanium and measured by
the IGEX experiment.
The second part of the paper is devoted to present the results of the VIP
(Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle) experiment and to describe its
recent upgrade. The VIP experiment established a limit on the probability that
the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) is violated by electrons, using the very
clean method of searching for PEP forbidden atomic transitions in copper
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