Have the Pauli exclusion principle been proven to apply to antimatter experimentally?
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Have the Pauli exclusion principle been proven to apply to antimatter experimentally?
Best Answer
While CERN has created anti-hydrogen, there has never been a synthesized multi-antielectron anti-atom. So there has never been a large enough anti-atom (antinucleons with antielectrons) to experimentally test the PEP for antimatter.
But the Pauli exclusion principle applies to all spin $\frac{1}{2}$ particles (all fermions) and one would be shocked that in anti-atoms containing several anti-electrons, the PEP was not obeyed.