Wigner Functions in High Energy Physics
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Recent developments are (meta)reviewed in the applications of Wigner functions to describe the observed single particle spectra and twoparticle Bose-Einstein (or Hanbury Brown – Twiss) correlations in high energy particle and nuclear physics, with examples from hadron-proton and Pb + Pb collisions at CERN SPS.
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