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Optical ghost imaging is a remote imaging technique that exploits either the correlations between light beams/entangled photon pairs, or the Hanbury-Brown Twiss [1, 2] effect typical of chaotic light sources. Is it possible to implement ghost imaging with massive particles? The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) project [3] offers a platform for attempting to answer this question. Our analysis is based on the experimental data taken in L’Aquila by two distant EEE muon telescopes [4, 5]. Interestingly, muons from cosmic ray showers exhibit spatio-temporal correlations that offer the possibility to evaluate the feasibility of ghost imaging with massive particle.
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D’Angelo, M. et al. (2014). Toward “Ghost Imaging” with Cosmic Ray Muons. In: Sidharth, B., Michelini, M., Santi, L. (eds) Frontiers of Fundamental Physics and Physics Education Research. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00297-2_24
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