X-rays Help to Unfuzzy the Concept of Measurement
- Author(s)
- Catalina Curceanu, Beatrix Hiesmayr, K. Piscicchia
- Abstract
In the last decades huge theoretical effort was devoted to the
development of consistent theoretical models, aiming to solve the
so-called “measurement problem,” to which John Bell dedicated part of
his thoughts. Among these, the Dynamical Reduction Models possess the
unique
characteristic to be experimentally testable, thus enabling to set
experimental upper bounds on the reduction rate parameter λ
characterizing these models. Analysing the X-ray spectrum emitted by an
isolated slab of Germanium, we set the most stringent limit on the
parameter λ
up to date.
- Organisation(s)
- Particle Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma, Museo Storico Fis
- Journal
- Journal of Advanced Physics
- Volume
- 4
- Pages
- 263-266
- ISSN
- 2168-1996
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1166/jap.2015.1193
- Publication date
- 09-2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103034 Particle physics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/xrays-help-to-unfuzzy-the-concept-of-measurement(4706885e-09a8-4f7c-ae60-e86ae2ca2a74).html