Wigner Functions in High Energy Physics

Abstract

Recent developments are (meta)reviewed in the applications of Wigner functions to describe the observed single particle spectra and two-particle 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.Comment: 4 pages, invited talk at the Wigner Centennial Conference, Pecs, Hungary, July 200