THE SEARCH FOR THE DECAY OF Z BOSON INTO TWO PHOTONS AS A TEST OF BOSE STATISTICS

1994/06/27 by A. Yu. Ignatiev, G. C. Joshi, Gayatri Joshi +2 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #hep-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732396000874

published as Mod.Phys.Lett.A11:871-876,1996 · 9 pages, in REVTEX, RCHEP-94/17, UM-P-94/63

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Abstract

We suggest that Bose statistics for photons can be tested by looking for decays of spin-1 bosons into two photons. The experimental upper limit on the decay Z→γγ is used to establish for the first time the quantitative measure of the validity of Bose symmetry for photons.

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