Measurement of Bose-Einstein correlations in e+eW+We^{+} e^{-} \to W^{+} W^{-} events at LEP

Collaboration
Jul, 2002
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 547 (2002) 139-150
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2002-062
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Bose–Einstein correlations in W-pair production at LEP are investigated in a data sample of 629 pb −1 collected by the L3 detector at s =189 –209 GeV. Bose–Einstein correlations between pions within a W decay are observed and found to be in good agreement with those in light-quark Z decay. No evidence is found for Bose–Einstein correlations between hadrons coming from different W's in the same event.
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • W: pair production
  • W: hadronic decay
  • W: leptonic decay
  • correlation: two-pion
  • correlation function
  • boson: statistics
  • L3
  • experimental results