Signatures of nucleon disappearance in large underground detectors

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Kamyshkov, Yuri ^a   Kolbe, Edwin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; BORON; CARBON; CARBON 11; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 15;

ARTICLE; BARYON; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NEUTRON; NUCLEON; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0038100301     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.076007     Document Type: Article

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