Measurements of Bose-Einstein correlations with the ATLAS detector

The Bose-Einstein correlations provide a unique opportunity for detailed understanding of space-time characteristics of the hadronization region, for determining the size and shape of the source from which particles are emitted and for interpreting quark confinement effects. The correlations lead to enhancement in production of identical bosons that are close in phase space. The ATLAS collaboration has performed a measurement of Bose-Einstein correlations of pairs of charged particles with transverse momentum greater than 100 MeV in p-p collisions at 900 GeV and 7 TeV. Bose-Einstein correlation parameters are investigated up to very high charged-particle multiplicities. The dependence of the Bose-Einstein correlation parameters on the average transverse momentum per pair is also investigated.