Abstract

The existence of a classical (coherent) component in the mesonic field as suggested by recent developments in particle physics generates under certain conditions a statistical distribution corresponding to a mixture of chaotic and coherent fields. The methods of quantum optics are used to investigate the effects of this mixture in the correlations. The relevance of this to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect in particle physics is discussed. Preliminary comparison with the data suggests that an appreciable coherent component might be present.

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