Acceptances for space-based and ground-based fluorescence detectors, and inference of the neutrino-nucleon cross-section above 1019 eV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Palomares Ruiz, Sergio ^a   Irimia, Andrei ^a   Weiler, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645784196     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.083003     Document Type: Article

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