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Mohamed Samy Abdallah, Bassam Aboona, Jaroslav Adam, Leszek Adamczyk, Joseph R. Adams, J. Kevin Adkins, Geydar Agakishiev, Ishu Aggarwal, Madan Mohan Aggarwal, Zubayer Ahammed, A. Aitbaev, Igor G. Alekseev, Derek M. Anderson, Alexey Aparin, Elke Caroline Aschenauer, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, F. G. Atetalla, Georgy S. Averichev, Vipul Bairathi, W. Baker, Jonathan Gonzalo Ball Cap, Kenneth Barish, Arabinda Behera, Rene Bellwied, Pratibha Bhagat, Anju Bhasin, Jaroslav Bielčík, Jana Bielčíková, Igor G. Bordyuzhin, James D. Brandenburg, Andrei V. Brandin, Xiang-Zhou Cai, Helen Louise Caines, Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Daniel A. Cebra, Irakli Chakaberia, Petr Chaloupka, B. K. Chan, F-H. Chang, Z. Chang, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, D. Chen, J. Chen, J. H. Chen, X. Chen, Z. Chen, J. Cheng, Subikash Choudhury, William Christie, Xiaoxuan Chu, Henry J. Crawford, Máté Csanád, M. Daugherity, T. G. Dedovich, Ingo Martin Deppner, Anatoly A. Derevschikov, A. Dhamija, L. 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• A linearly polarized photon can be quantized from the Lorentz-boosted electromagnetic field of a nucleus traveling at ultra-relativistic speed. When two relativistic heavy nuclei pass one another at a distance of a few nuclear radii, the photon from one nucleus may interact through a virtual quark-antiquark pair with gluons from the other nucleus forming a short-lived vector meson (e.g. ρ0). In this experiment, the polarization was utilized in diffractive photoproduction to observe a unique spin interference pattern in the angular distribution of ρ0→π+π− decays. The observed interference is a result of an overlap of two wave functions at a distance an order of magnitude larger than the ρ0 travel distance within its lifetime. The strong-interaction nuclear radii were extracted from these diffractive interactions, and found to be 6.53±0.06 fm (197Au) and 7.29±0.08 fm (238U), larger than the nuclear charge radii. The observable is demonstrated to be sensitive to the nuclear geometry and quantum interference of non-identical particles.