The quest for a femto-meter

I have tried to summarize in these pages my research during the past 21 years. It started at IFIC-Valencia, then a few years at GANIL and Valencia again, and finally at LPC-Caen since 1994. Though my move to LPC represented a strong thematic change, I have made an effort to find a story-line that follows most of the projects I have participated in, and this story-line is the quest for measuring nuclear distances. Along this path, I will include the cover of the articles I found significant, their full version can be found at the end of this document, in their order of appearance. The scientific content is divided into 7 chapters: 1) photon interferometry, 2) neutrons from the halo, 3) photons from the halos, 4) neutron interferometry, 5) neutrons only, 6) uncorrelated distributions, and 7) 3-body interactions