Can a large neutron excess help solve the baryon loading problem in gamma-ray burst fireballs?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2673-2676

  Fuller, George M ^a   Pruet, Jason ^a   Abazajian, Kevork ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRONS; PROTONS;

BARYON LOADING PROBLEM; GAMMA RAY BURSTS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0034714645     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2673     Document Type: Article

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