Nature of the highest energy cosmic rays

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1365-1371

  Stanev, Todor ^a   Vankov, H P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

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EID: 0001563826     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.1365     Document Type: Article

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