Magnetic monopoles as the highest energy cosmic ray primaries

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-279

  Kephart, Thomas W ^a   Weiler, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/0927-6505(95)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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