Proposed search for small violations of bose statistics in molecular spectra

Abstract

(ricevuto il 30 Giugno 1994; approvato il 5 Settembre 1994)Summary. --I discuss the possibility of performing a test of the symmetrization postulate for bosons by high-sensitivity spectroscopy of 1602. I show that the sensitivity required to give significant information can be easily achieved by well-developed spectroscopic methods.PACS 42.50.Wm -Optical tests of fundamental laws and forces (including QED, Bell inequalities, parity-conservation violation, relativistic effects, gravity waves).

Search for Small Violations of the Symmetrization Postulate for Spin-0 Particles

“…In the case of bosons, a small violation of the SP would in general manifest itself as a small change in the properties of a multiparticle system, and therefore experimental tests are somewhat more difficult. In [7,8], the possibility of searching for lines forbidden by the SP in the spectra of molecules containing identical spin-0 nuclei was proposed. In [9,10], experiments were performed, by looking for electronic transitions in the O 2 spectrum between states which are antisymmetric in the exchange of the 16 O nuclei, which have nuclear spin I 0.…”

Testing the Symmetrization Postulate of Quantum Mechanics and the Spin-Statistics Connection

“…The same argument applies to the symmetry of systems including identical nuclei. In [23,24], it was proposed that a high-sensitivity investigation of the spectra of molecules containing identical spin-0 nuclei would allow to search for violations of Bose statistics for the nuclei. The basic idea of these experiments is analogous to the one underlying the experiment on electrons in the helium atom [14].…”

Two-Photon Decay of Z′ as a Probe of Bose Symmetry Violation at the Cern LHC

“…Later, Bose statistics came under scrutiny as well. Initially, experimental proposals of searching for deviations from Bose symmetry used the spin-zero nucleus of oxygen 16 O as the test object [34,35].…”