Anisotropy at the end of the cosmic ray spectrum?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Anchordoqui, Luis A ^a   Goldberg, Haim ^a   Torres, Diego F ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ENERGY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0043130364     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.123006     Document Type: Article

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