High Precision Experimental Test of the Symmetrization Postulate for Ferminons

Published

January 1, 2001

Author(s)

John D. Gillaspy

Abstract

A review is given of experiments that have been used to infer an upper bound on the degree (b2) to which the symmetrization postulate might be violated in nature. A proposed grouping of the experiments into seven different categories is put forth, based on different conceptual difficulties associated with interpreting them. Some comments are made about the strengths and weaknesses of representative experiments from several of the categories. It is suggested that there may be a considerable body of existing experimental data that could be analyzed to infer additional limits on SP-violation; as an example of this I consider the suppression of molecular recombiniation in spin-polarized atomic hydrogen by strong magnetic fields. While this article is limited to experiments involving ferminons, an extensive bibliography on both theory and experiments related to the spin-statistics connection in general is referred to.

Citation

International Conference on Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations: Experimental Test and Theoretical Implications

Volume

545

Pub Type

Journals

Keywords

experimental test, fermions, pauli exclusion principle, review, spin-polarized atomic hydrogen, spin-statistics connection, symmetrization postulate

Citation

Gillaspy, J. (2001), High Precision Experimental Test of the Symmetrization Postulate for Ferminons, International Conference on Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations: Experimental Test and Theoretical Implications (Accessed May 16, 2025)