Cosmic topological defects, highest energy cosmic rays, and the baryon asymmetry of the universe

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 260-263

  Bhattacharjee, Pijushpani ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

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EID: 0000083996     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.260     Document Type: Article

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