Extensive air showers with TeV-scale quantum gravity

Physical Review D

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Anchordoqui, Luis ^a   Goldberg, Haim ^a   McCauley, Thomas ^a   Paul, Thomas ^a   Reucroft, Stephen ^a   Swain, John ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY; GRAVITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0034890671     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.124009     Document Type: Article

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