Ultra-high energy cosmic rays and de Sitter vacua

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

Volumn 578, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 247-252

  Alberghi, Gian Luigi ^a   Goldstein, Kevin ^b   Lowe, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; VACUUM;

EID: 0347415727     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.088     Document Type: Article

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