Quon statistics for composite systems and a limit on the violation of the Pauli principle for nucleons and quarks

The quon algebra describes particles, "quons," that are neither fermions no r bosons. The parameter q attached to a quon labels a smooth interpolation between bosons (q = +1) and fermions (q = -1). Wigner and Ehrenfest and Opp enheimer showed that a composite system of identical bosons and fermions is a fermion if it contains an odd number of fermions and is a boson otherwis e. We generalize this and show that q(composite) = q(constituent)(n2) for a system of rr identical quons. Using this generalization, we find bounds on possible violations of the Pauli exclusion principle for nucleons and quar ks based on such bounds for nuclei.