The Search for the Decay of Z Boson into Two Gammas as a Test of Bose Statistics

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 $Z\to \gamma \gamma$ is used to establish for the first time the quantitative measure of the validity of Bose symmetry for photons.

arXiv comment9 pages, in REVTEX, RCHEP-94/17, UM-P-94/63

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