New hadrons as ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Kachelrieß, Michael ^a   Semikoz, Dmitry V ^a,b   Tórtola, Maria A ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY; GAMMA RADIATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTON TRANSPORT;

EID: 0141545166     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.043005     Document Type: Article

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