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We point out that, on very general grounds, experiments with directionally collimated beams (of neutrons or other particles) incident on passive targets cannot distinguish between their coherent wave-packet structure and the incoherent mixing due, for example, to multiple emitters or to interactions with other particles in the source.
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Bernstein et al. (1987) studied this question.
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