Propagation of muons and taus at high energies

Physical Review D

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2001, Pages

  Iyer Dutta, S ^a   Reno, M H ^b   Sarcevic, I ^c   Seckel, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0034906790     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.094020     Document Type: Article

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