Neutrinos associated with cosmic rays of top-down origin

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 555, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 22-32

  Barbot, C ^a   Drees, M ^a   Halzen, F ^b   Hooper, D ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODEL; PHOTON;

EID: 0037468337     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00039-X     Document Type: Article

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