Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Our changing view of the nature of X-rays

by Joachim Stöhr (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)

Friday 16 Jun 2017, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

CFEL, Bldg. 99 (DESY Hamburg)

My talk discusses and challenges some of the conventional concepts of X-ray science, like the Huygens-Fresnel principle and Dirac‘s bold statement that photons only interfere with themselves. I will describe an X-ray experiment that leads to the recognition that two photons can indeed interfere and that the wave and particle aspects simply correspond to a first and second order description of coherence and X-ray propagation.