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    Photon Bunching at TeV Energies

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    Harwit, Protheroe, and Biermann (1999) recently proposed that Bose-Einstein photon bunching might significantly affect the interpretation of Cerenkov counts of TeV gamma photons. Here, we show that a combination of two recent results of Aharonian et al. (2000) and Aharonian et al. (2001) permits us to set new, more stringent upper limits of ≲10\lesssim 10% on the fractional amount of photon bunching in the 7-10 TeV radiation from Markarian 501. Potential bunching at even higher energies should nevertheless continue to be investigated for this and other TeV sources, since a clear understanding of TeV energy spectra is required to unambiguously determine the spectral energy density of the mid-infrared extragalactic background

    Simple applications of Noether's first theorem in quantum mechanics and electromagnetism

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    Internal global symmetries exist for the free non-relativistic Schr\"{o}dinger particle, whose associated Noether charges--the space integrals of the wavefunction and the wavefunction multiplied by the spatial coordinate--are exhibited. Analogous symmetries in classical electromagnetism are also demonstrated.Comment: 12 page

    Observing the present and considering the past to ponder the future

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    The Fall and Rise of Qualified Immunity: From Hope to Harris

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    Variable ratio beam splitter for laser applications

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    Beam splitter employing birefringent optics provides either widely different or precisely equal beam ratios, it can be used with laser light source systems for interferometry of lossy media, holography, scattering measurements, and precise beam ratio applications

    Reflectance measurements

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    The productivity of spectroreflectometer equipment and operating personnel and the accuracy and sensitivity of the measurements were investigated. Increased optical sensitivity and better design of the data collection and processing scheme to eliminate some of the unnecessary present operations were conducted. Two promising approaches to increased sensitivity were identified, conventional processing with error compensation and detection of random noise modulation
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