Inclusive production of D*(+/-) mesons in two-photon collisions was measure
d by the L3 experiment at LEP. The data were collected at a centre-of-mass
energy root s = 189 GeV with an integrated luminosity of 176.4 pb(-1). Diff
erential cross sections of the process e(+)e- --> e(+)e(-) D* X+/- are dete
rmined as functions of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the D*
(+/-) mesons in the kinematic region 1 GeV <p(T)(D*) < 5 GeV and /eta(D*)/
< 1.4, The cross section integrated over this phase space domain is measure
d to be 132 +/- 22(stat.)+/- 26(syst.)pb. The differential cross sections a
re compared with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations. (C) 1
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