M. Acciarri et al., Measurement of Bose-Einstein correlations in e(+)e(-) -> W+W- at root s similar or equal to 189 GeV, PHYS LETT B, 493(3-4), 2000, pp. 233-248
We investigate Bose-Einstein correlations (BEC) in W-pair production at roo
ts similar or equal to 189 GeV using the L3 detector at LEP. We observe BEC
between particles from a single W decay in good agreement with those from
a light-quark Z decay sample. We investigate their possible existence betwe
en particles coming from different W's. No evidence for such inter-W BEC is
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