Questioning the validity of axioms can teach us about physics beyond the standard model. A recent search for the violation of charge conservation and the Pauli exclusion principle yields limits on these scenarios.
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Porcelli, A. Search for rule-breaking electrons. Nat. Phys. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02448-6
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