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    "abstract": "In the 1950\u0027s Hanbury Brown and Twiss showed that one could measure the\nangular sizes of astronomical radio sources and stars from correlations of\nsignal intensities, rather than amplitudes, in independent detectors. Their\nsubsequent correlation experiments demonstrating quantum bunching of photons in\nincoherent light beams were seminal in the development of quantum optics. Since\nthat time the technique of \"intensity interferometry\" has become a valuable\nprobe of high energy nuclear and particle collisions, providing information on\nthe space-time geometry of the collision. The effect is one of the few\nmeasurements in elementary particle detection that depends on the wave\nmechanics of the produced particles. Here we discuss the basic physics of\nintensity interferometry, and its current applications in high energy nuclear\nphysics, as well as recent applications in condensed matter and atomic physics.",
    "arxiv_id": "nucl-th/9804026",
    "authors": [
      "Gordon Baym"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "nucl-th",
      "cond-mat"
    ],
    "journal_ref": "ActaPhys.Polon.B29:1839-1884,1998",
    "title": "The physics of Hanbury Brown--Twiss intensity interferometry: from stars   to nuclear collisions",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9804026"
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