How strongly does dating meteorites constrain the time-dependence of the fine-structure constant?

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 20, Issue 32, 2005, Pages 2417-2434

  Fujii, Yasunori ^a   Iwamoto, Akira ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fine structure constant; Meteorites; Oklo; QSO; Time variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444508532     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732305018499     Document Type: Short Survey

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