Four experimental results, which seem to contradict the established ideas about the Bose-Einstein correlations in multiple particle production precesses, are briefly presented and discussed.
INTRODUCTIONThe study of Bose-Einstein correlations (further quoted BEC ) in multiple particle production processes is an important source of information about the interaction region, i.e. about the region, where the hadrons are produced. One would like to know the size and shape of this region as well as its orientation with respect to the momentum of the incident particle and to the impact parameter vector. For the matter inside one would like to know: its flows, its equation of state and its phase transitions. Much information has already been obtained (cf. the reviews [1], [2], [3], [4] and references quoted there), its reliability, however, depends on the correctness of our interpretation of the observed BEC.Four surprising experimental results concerning BEC will be here briefly presented and discussed. By surprising we do not just mean that they disagree with some specific model, but that they seem to contradict the basic physical pictures used to build most of the currently popular models. Perhaps in the future some trivial explanations will be found, but if not, these observations may lead to a reinterpretation of the BEC data and consequently to changes in our conclusions concerning the interaction region. Thus the questions raised are interesting and potentially important. * Supported in part by the KBN grant 2P03B 093 22