Sweeping away the monopole problem

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2281-2284

  Dvali, G ^a,b   Liu, Hong ^c   Vachaspati, Tanmay ^d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001196407     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2281     Document Type: Article

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