Acceptance of fluorescence detectors and its implication in energy spectrum inference at the highest energies

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  De Souza, Vitor ^a   Medina Tanco, Gustavo ^a   Ortiz, Jeferson A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 29744444671     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.103009     Document Type: Article

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