Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Cheng, K S ^a   Usov, V V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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EID: 33845546007     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.127303     Document Type: Article

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