The Oklo bound on the time variation of the fine-structure constant revisited

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 480, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 37-54

  Damour, Thibault ^a,b,c   Dyson, Freeman ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Fine structure constant; Natural fission reactors; Variation of fundamental constants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030602125     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00467-1     Document Type: Article

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