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Spontaneously Emitted X-rays: An Experimental Signature of the Dynamical Reduction Models

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We present the idea of searching for X-rays as a signature of the mechanism inducing the spontaneous collapse of the wave function. Such a signal is predicted by the continuous spontaneous localization theories, which are solving the “measurement problem” by modifying the Schrödinger equation. We will show some encouraging preliminary results and discuss future plans and strategy.

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We acknowledge the support from the: HadronPhysics FP6(506078), HadronPhysics2 FP7 (227431), HadronPhysics3 (283286) projects, EU COST Action MP1006, Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics, Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) which supports the VIP2 project with the Grant P25529-N20 and Centro Fermi (“Problemi aperti nella meccania quantistica” project).

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  1. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 40, CP 13, 00044, Frascati, Rome, Italy

    C. Curceanu, S. Bartalucci, M. Bazzi, S. Bertolucci, C. Berucci, A. M. Bragadireanu, A. Clozza, L. De Paolis, A. D’Uffizi, C. Guaraldo, M. Iliescu, D. Pietreanu, K. Piscicchia, E. Sbardella, A. Scordo, H. Shi, D. L. Sirghi, F. Sirghi & L. Sperandio

  2. Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Rome, Italy

    C. Curceanu & K. Piscicchia

  3. “Horia Hulubei” National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Str. Atomistilor no. 407, P.O. Box MG-6, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania

    C. Curceanu, A. M. Bragadireanu, D. Pietreanu, T. Ponta, D. L. Sirghi & F. Sirghi

  4. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste and INFN– Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio, 2, 34127, Trieste, Italy

    A. Bassi, S. Donadi & E. Milotti

  5. The Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    C. Berucci, M. Cargnelli, T. Ishiwatari, J. Marton, A. Pichler, H. Shi & J. Zmeskal

  6. Institut de Physique UMR CNRS-UR1 6251, Université de Rennes 1, 35042, Rennes, France

    S. Di Matteo

  7. Institut de Physique, Université de Neuchâtel, 1 rue A.-L. Breguet, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    J.-P. Egger

  8. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, S.S. 17/bis, 67010, L’Aquila, Assergi, Italy

    M. Laubenstein

  9. Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    O. Vazquez Doce

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Curceanu, C., Bartalucci, S., Bassi, A. et al. Spontaneously Emitted X-rays: An Experimental Signature of the Dynamical Reduction Models. Found Phys 46, 263–268 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-015-9923-4

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