Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, cosmological constant, and θ vacua

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Jaikumar, Prashanth ^a   Mazumdar, Anupam ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; VACUA; VACUUM TUNNELING EFFECTS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0038270832     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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