Particle Interferometry from 40 MeV to 40 TeV

Abstract

We review particle interferometry before 2000, including: basics and formalism of quantum-statistical correlations; model-independent analysis of short-range correlations; Coulomb wave-function corrections and the core/halo picture for $n$-particle Bose-Einstein correlations; graph rules to calculate these correlations even with partial coherence in the core; particle interferometry in $e^+e^-$ collisions including the Andersson-Hofmann model; invariant Buda-Lund particle interferometry; Buda-Lund, Bertsch-Pratt and Yano-Koonin-Podgoretskii parameterizations; Buda-Lund hydro model and its applications to (\pi/K)+p and Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS, as well as to low energy heavy ion collisions; binary source formalism and the related oscillations in the two-particle Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac correlation functions; experimental signs of expanding rings of fire and shells of fire in particle and heavy ion physics and their similarity to planetary nebulae in stellar astronomy; signal of partial restoration of the U_A(1) symmetry restoration in the two-pion correlation function; back-to-back correlations of bosons with in-medium mass modifications; and the analytic solution of the pion-laser model.