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High Precision Experimental Test of the Symmetrization Postulate for Ferminons
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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
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 December 13, 2024)