Deep shower interpretation of the cosmic ray events observed in excess of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin energy

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Chou, Aaron S ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 33750584058     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.103001     Document Type: Article

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